Those other two, 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 on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,... Paradise Lost - Page 69by John Milton - 1850 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
| Stephen Gill - Literary Collections - 2006 - 417 pages
...Davie — may create its significance by a momentary ambiguity: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (Paradise Lost, III, 37-40) of language comes out for instance in 'Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 284 pages
...of visual beauty is expressed in poetry of much aural beauty as he laments his blindness but feeds on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers;...covert 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... | |
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