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La Belle Assemblée - Page 20
1810
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then and weep each other's woe Where round some mouldering tower pale ivy creeps, ; 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 Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...with them in renown. Blind Thamyris, and blind Maxmides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old: Then des, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks,...goddess fair and free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, ; 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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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry

Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...reflects on his own sightless eyes, Milton's thoughts turn to the nightingale singing in darkness: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers;...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. How consciously Keats remembered this passage one cannot say, but it contains the whole kernel of the...
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Collected Essays, Papers, Etc, Volume 10

Robert Bridges - 870 pages
...exhibit how he broke up his fynes, will serve well: in Paradise Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings...nocturnal Note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach ofEv'n or Morn. These fynes are gratly admired; a...
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The Church, Volume 4

1850 - 348 pages
...how great is the darkness. The plaintive strains of him who felt it are singularly expressive, — " Seasons return, hut not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or eight of vernal hloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead,...
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A Critical History of English Literature: Shakespeare to Milton, Volume 2

David Daiches - 1979 - 304 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;...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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The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost

William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 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;...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (21-40) The blindness of three of the poets and prophets listed was a punishment from the gods. Are...
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Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost

Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...the bird and blind bard — he fuses them in a single simile: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (Ill, 37-40) When the speaker as blind poet compares himself here to a bird whose song rises in the...
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A Gust for Paradise: Milton's Eden and the Visual Arts

Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...and morn "where the Muses haunt /Clear Spring, or shady Grove, or Sunny HUP (3.27-28), Then feed[s] on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers;...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (3.37-40) Eve sings her nocturn as she and Adam move hand in hand toward a bower whose "thickest covert...
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英美名詩一百首

1993 - 412 pages
...5 @ , 他住在耶路撒冷的聖地 @ 3 @ 神話中的詩人。 山即荷馬。 @ 5 @ 即夜鶯。 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 Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers...
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