 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 ページ
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Sweet bird, that shuun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song; And missing thee, I walk unseen Oil the dry smooth shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | 1829 - 494 ページ
...insects which are most acceptable to them. THE NIGHTINGALE. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folty, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even song. MILTON. THE Nightingale has little to boast, if we consider its plumage, which is of a pale... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 ページ
...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...the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles it the " solemn bird;" and again speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 ページ
...night, While Cynthia^checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the "accustomed oak: Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, TO behold the wandering... | |
 | Aristophanes, John Wood Warter - 1830 - 268 ページ
...PARABASIS. Come,5 ye of mortal mould, whose life is spent in darkness, sedge-bird. Hence Milton : " Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." See Bewick's British Birds, vol. ip 231. Ed. 1826. i Vide Matth. GG 205, 5. 2 Vide ^Eschyl. Agam. v.... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 ページ
...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 & On... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 ページ
...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, channtress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thec, I walk unseen 65... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1834 - 192 ページ
...The nightingale, however, is no sedgebird : and probably ' underwood ' is a better interpretation : Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song. Milton. See Bewick's British Birds, vol. i. p. 231. ed. 1826. 655. air«û] put for auroVe ' hither.'... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 ページ
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oke ; 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 On the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 ページ
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke. Gently o'er th' aceustom'd oke ; 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 On the... | |
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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! 
