 Tunes her nocturnal note: thus 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, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 54by John Milton - 1857 - 570 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note....book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...nocturnal note. Thus 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,...book of knowledge fair,, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut otrt. So much... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers: as the wakeful bird vOL. I. P Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note....book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased ; And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...involuntarily, to that single gleam of light, which reminds him only of scenes that exist no longer to him. " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me."} * Gray, de Princip. Cogit. lib. iv 85—96. t Paradise Lost, Book 111. v. 1—12. $... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note....not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or (locks, or herds, or human face divine ; But... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful hird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note....off, and for' the book of knowledge fair Presented whh a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...Then feed ou thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers — as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note....face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 pages
...XVIII. • Thus 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,...book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank. Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or mom, ts venerable made: Here his first lays majestic Denham...fromCowley'stongue. O early lost ! what tears the river blank Of Nature's works to me expung'd and rais'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 468 pages
...involuntarily, to that single gleam of light, which reminds him only of scenes that exist no longer to him. " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; Hut cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me."f How often must he have felt, — and... | |
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