...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...

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...two whom the poet M 2 , So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old: Then feed on...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid principally desires to resemble : and it seems as if he had intended at first to mention only these...

...39. — darkling,"] It is said that this word was coined by our author, but I find it used several Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 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 rose, Or flocks,...

...compares his own making verses in his blindness to the nightingale's singing in the dark. iii. 37. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird BOOK VII. Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays: Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd...

...with them in renown !) Í :iiml Thamyris, and blind Ma;onides : 35 And Tiresias and Pbineus, piophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeiul bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year...

...equall'd with me in fate. So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maxmides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest eovert hid Tunes her noeturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day,...

...were I equal'd with them in renown! Blind Thamyris, and blind Moeonides ; 35 And Tiresias, and Phmeus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid T«nes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 10 Seasons return: but not to me returns Day, or the...

...Tiresias, and Pliincus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; ns the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Tims with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or mom,...

...equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old ; Then feed...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...