 | Hunting - 1826 - 540 pages
...your obedient servant, A CONSTANT READEB. RUSTICUS ON ORNITHOLOGY. (Continued.) THK NIGHTINGALE. " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !" • MILTON'S // Pcnitroto. To the Editor of the Sporting Mngan*e. SIR, |L OTWITHSTANDING the very... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...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 pages
...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...chantress, oft 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...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 moon, Riding... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...Above,| about,| : or un|derneath|. II Penseroso. Ne wil|le ic leng| : his geou|gra weorth(an. Cad. Sweet bird | that shun'nst| : the noise | of fol|ly Most mu|sical| : most mel|ancholy. II Penseroso. 5 : 6. is only met with in the tumbling verse. This no|ble earle| : full wise|ly hath... | |
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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! 
