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" To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise... "
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ... - Page 82
by Samuel Johnson - 1805
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free : s sides. Come and trip it as you go On the light fantastic...lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty : ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweet-brier, or the...
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free. To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled Dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-brier, or the...
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The American Elocutionist: Comprising "Lessons in Enunciation', "Exercises ...

William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free : To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle...night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dapple dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 279

Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...I think, has the happier beginning, and its landscape has the everlasting freshness of morning: — "To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, . . . While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 1

1844 - 52 pages
...shake off her nightly robe, bespangled with dew or fringed with the sparkles of the hoar-frost,— 1 To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...night— From his watch-tower In the skies, Till the dapple-dawn doth rise ;— While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to...
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The Central literary magazine, Volume 4

Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !" But " the cheerful man " awakes " To hear the lark begin his flight. And singing, startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise." * " Cyprus," a thin transparent texture, ^supposed to have been originally produced in the island of...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...occasional looseness mL' Allegro may be indicated by the sharp debate27 that has arisen over these lines: To hear the Lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-towre in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to com in spight of sorrow. And at...
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Blake's Vision of the Poetry of Milton: Illustrations to Six Poems

Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...and Prose of William Blake, p. 682, give these lines of the poem as the subject of the illustration: To hear the Lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull Night From his Watch Tower in the Skies Fill the dappled Dawn does rise. They are 11. 4 1-44, in The Works of John...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...away! Admittedly some of the words are hard, but there is no doubting the enthusiasm and the delight. To hear the lark begin his flight And, singing, startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. JOHN MILTON Dappled dawn . . . what a lovely combination of words and sounds! Dappled is with most...
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Milton Re-viewed: Ten Essays

Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free; To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come in spite of sorrow And at rny window bid good-morrow. Who comes or is to come? Is it the...
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