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" Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note... "
La Belle Assemblée - Page 20
1810
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Curious Antiquities: Or, The Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings ...

Joseph Taylor - 1820 - 122 pages
...woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles it the solemn bird} and he says again : " As the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." Origin of Rosemary, Cypress, and Yew, being distributed at Funerals, &c. In ancient times, it was customary...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...I'hineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers — as the wateeful bird '' .' Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert...hid, *^, • Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the j ear, Seasons return — but not to me re turns Day, or the sweet approach of even or mom, No sight...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...them in renown, Blind Tliamyiis, and blind Maeonidcs ; And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...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...
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Poems Divine and Moral: Many of Them Now First Published

John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly 1 visit : as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest...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...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful hird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns Pay, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn , Or sight of vernal...
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The Poetical Common-place Book: Consisting of an Original Selection of ...

1822 - 418 pages
...them in renown,— Blind Thamyris, and blind Ma'onides, And TiresiaS and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed ou thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers —...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...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful hird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid 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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mœonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then bs the sleeping trees, Nor aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze ; Engag'd but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or mom, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid 35 principally desires to resemble : and it seems as if he had intended at first to mention only these...
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