 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pàgines
...denominations ! ! The nightingale was a favourite of Milton, who, in one place, prettily and truly says, -" the wakeful bird Sings darkling ; and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." 26 In another place he says, ' She all night long her amorous descant sung ;' Which is false, for she... | |
 | 1830 - 824 pàgines
...on those sightless orbs which she was endeavouring to enlighten, " ' Seasons return ; but not to her returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn. Or sight of venial bloom, or summer's rose.' " A few months after, lady Eleanor died, and her accomplished and... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pàgines
...So were I equal'd with them in renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Meeonides ; **» »-<v»>-1'— 35 And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year K Seasons return : but not to me returns Day^or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pàgines
...equall'd with me in Fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus Prophets old. Then feed on...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... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pàgines
...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...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 Rose, Or flocks, or... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - 1993 - 304 pàgines
...fills up the inner space (gratitude as it were for water and for sleep: for being able not to loathe "the sweet approach of even or morn, or sight of vernal bloom," "or flocks, or herds") — gratitude without an object, too, since these good things — love of our life... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - 1998 - 352 pàgines
...habits, which are philomelic, and their singing habits, which are also philomelic — like Milton's own: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling. (37-39; my emphasis)^1 It may also be that "They rolled their r's, there, in the land of the citrons"... | |
 | Catherine Maxwell - 2001 - 292 pàgines
...too sings in darkness: So were I equalled with them in renown. Blmd Thaniyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on...voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Smgs darklmg, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. (3.34-40) The figure of the melancholy... | |
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Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird 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 bloom, or summer's rose,... 
