 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,3 The cherub Contemplation : And the mute Silence hist3 along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest,...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks4 her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...sitting in thine eyes. Join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet But first and chiefest with thee bring Him that yon...the fiery-wheel-ed throne, The cherub Contemplation. Oft on a plat of rising ground I'd hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...that oft with gods doth diet, And add to these retired Leisure, Aye round about Jove's altar sing: That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; But first,...cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, In her sweetest, saddest plight, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, Smoothing the rugged brow of night,... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...earth as fast. And join with thee ealm Peaee and Quiet, Spare Fast, that ofI with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar...Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. 50 But, first and ehiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...earth as fast : And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar...bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery -wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will... | |
 | 1860 - 520 pages
...famous passage to which the proverbial repute of this bird as a " most melancholy" one owes its origin : And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night. . . . Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress,... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 pages
...famous passage to which the proverbial repute of this bird as a " most melancholy" one owes its origin : And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night. . . . Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...earth as fast; And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar...in trim gardens takes his pleasure. But first, and chicfest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The... | |
 | John Milton - 1861 - 734 pages
...earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet* Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar...Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure: 50 But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...hints for contemplation, And, from the most minute and mean, A virtuous mind can morals glean. GAY. But first, and chiefest, with thee bring Him that...fiery-wheeled throne— The cherub Contemplation. MILTON. Thanks to the human heart, by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears.... | |
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There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet ; Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring, Aye... 
