 | Gift books - 1828 - 318 pages
...So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Mseonides, And Tyresias, and Phineus, prophets old: Then fed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...great. Though numberless, I never shall forget. Dennam. Loud as from numbers without number. Milton. Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move, Harmonious numbers, as the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Id. About his chariot numberless were poured Cherub and. seraph. Id. Paradise Lost. As one diamond... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...Milton had, notwithstanding his bitter complaints on this account, been less absorbed in thought» that voluntary move Harmonious numbers, as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note ; and more of the political partisan, had he been more... | |
 | University of Cambridge - Classical education - 1830 - 636 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...in renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Meeonides ; **» »-<v»>-1'— 35 And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year K Seasons return : but not to me returns... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. v\ Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...were I equal'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mseonides, 33 And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...hallowed verse. Under an inspiration more holy than that which Milton had ever felt, they delighted to 'Feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.' Within one year after their conversion they published,... | |
 | Midnight musings - 1832 - 162 pages
... ' . jr. > MIDNIGHT MUSINGS A COLLECTION IT VARIOUS SUBJECTS,. THOUGHTS that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. MILTON. DEMERARA: PRINTED AT THF. COURIER OFFICE, 18,... | |
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Those other two equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,... 
