 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 páginas
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak: Sweet bird, that shunn'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 unseen... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 páginas
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak: Sweet bird, that shunn'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 unseen... | |
 | Charles Fothergill - 1813 - 288 páginas
...Smoothing the rugged hrow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er th* nccustom'd oak . Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chnntress ! oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song :" and still less, perhaps, ought... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 páginas
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, ' Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'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 unseen... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 páginas
...the rugged brow of night| "While Cynthia checks her dragon yoket Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak; & Sweet bird, that shunn'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... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 páginas
...Smoothing, the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'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 unseen... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 páginas
...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.' Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v., Scene 4. • ' Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! ' II Penseroso. See also<the exquisite allusions in Paradise Lost, Books iii. and m ciation only... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 páginas
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song. * jGllan Var. Hist. 577, both... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 páginas
...remarked that this stanza is indebted to the following passage in the 11 Penseroso of Milton, ver. 61 : " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !* * Gaw. Douglas, in his Translation of Virgil, Prolog- to book xiii. p. 450, describes the notes... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o er th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st 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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Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! 
