 While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak : Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen...  Abbeychurch, or Self control and self conceit - Seite 143von Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1844 - 320 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia^checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the "accustomed oak: Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak: Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 Seiten
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak : Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | 1869 - 582 Seiten
...BIRD. HE Poet of Paradise Lost and // Pemieroso, my dear Mr. Punch. says of the nightingale : — " Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise, of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! " Addicted as I am to soaring, I Iwpe I do not fly too high m saying that MILTON might nave sung... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 Seiten
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak : Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among. I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 Seiten
...mute Silence hist along, ..." While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy." — n Penseroso, 54-62. " But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale."—... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1891 - 192 Seiten
...And the mute Silence hist along, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy." — -11 Penseroso, 54-62. " But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale."—... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 Seiten
...mute Silence hist along, . . . " While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy." — II Penseroso, 54-62. " But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale." —... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 134 Seiten
...connection with the night is expressed by her name. See 602. For "solemn," compare II Penserono, 61 : " Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy. " 649. gems of Heaven, the stars. This passage is rather against Keightley's emendation in 605. 650.... | |
 | Adam L. Gowans - 1903 - 168 Seiten
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon-yoke. Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee I walk unseen,... | |
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