 | 1803 - 376 pages
...II Penseroso, the ideas of which were ' excellently suited to my present wanderings of ' thought. " Sweet bird! that shun'st the noise of folly, " Most musical ! most melancholy ! " Thee, chauntress, off, the woods among, " I woo to hear thy evening song ; " And missing thee,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear ihy even-song ; And missing thee, I wall: unseen... | |
 | Oxford city, Holywell music room - 1808 - 170 pages
...p GRAND SIMPHONY. Haydn. SONG. Mrs. DICKONS. ' Handel. (Accompanied on1 the Flute by Mr. JACKSON') Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song. AIR and DOUBLE CHORUS. Handel.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 pages
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. " Sweet bird ! that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical ! most melancholy ! Thee, cliantress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee I walk... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shun'st 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... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1822 - 450 pages
...quote the whole couplet alluded to by him, and then my honourable friend may be thus addressed : " Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy." Mr. GRATTAN observed — Sir, I did not say, as the right honourable gentleman seemed to conceive,... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...serenade that most delights the Poet, and of which Milton is mindful in Allegro: — To the Nightingale. Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, Chantress, oft, the Woods among, I woo, to hear thy Evening Song. Petrarch's beautiful sonnet,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...Milton's 11 Penseroso : " To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan IHIT.. Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy I Thee chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, 1 walk unseen... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...;" and in his poem, entitled " II Penseroso," he thus speaks of this enchanting songstress : — - " Sweet bird that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, , - 1 woo to hear thy even song." That beautiful little bird... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1826 - 208 pages
...hawthorn in the dale. But the man of a melancholy disposition, IL PENSEROSO, chooses the evening for his walk, as most suitable to the temper of his mind...the noise of folly, " Most musical, most melancholy. Farther; — Our trains of suggested thoughts will be modified by those -temporary feelings, which... | |
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To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the... 
