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" Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. "
Poetical Works: Biography of Milton - Page 208
by John Milton - 1835
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Curious Antiquities: Or, The Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings ...

Joseph Taylor - Boxing - 1820 - 122 pages
...woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles it the solemn bird} and he says again : " As the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." Origin of Rosemary, Cypress, and Yew, being distributed at Funerals, &c. In ancient times, it was customary...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Ma'onides ; And Tiresias, and I'hineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers — as the wateeful bird '' .' Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, *^, • Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...were I equal'd with them in renown, Blind Tliamyiis, and blind Maeonidcs ; And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,...
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Poems Divine and Moral: Many of Them Now First Published

John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly 1 visit : as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest...with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, 35 And Tiresias and Phinens, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful hird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons...
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The hall of Hellingsley 3 vols, Volume 2

sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 264 pages
...thoughts, or studied facts; never the flow of the unsought visitings of the Muse. He never seemed " To feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sits darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." The Poty-olbion is a wonderful...
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On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The Valley of the Rye ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Moeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,...
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The Poetical Common-place Book: Consisting of an Original Selection of ...

English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown,— Blind Thamyris, and blind Ma'onides, And TiresiaS and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary...with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or (locks,...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed ou thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers —...the year, Seasons return — but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful hird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her...with the year Seasons return : but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,...
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