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" 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: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. From the ... - Page 52
by John Milton - 1759 - 416 pages
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 3, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Mseonides, And Tirefias and Phineus prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in fhadied covert hid .. Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seafons return ; but not to me returns...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...fate, So were I equ&l'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mzonides, 35 And Tiresas and Phineus prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Mseonides, And 1'iresias, and Phineas, prophets old; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...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...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mzonides, 35 And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old : '1 hen feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1809 - 494 pages
...to interrupt the purfuit of no lefs hopes than thefe, and leave a calm and pleating folitaHarmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in fhadieft covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with theyear4o Seafons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the fweet approach...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...immediately follow. Thus in Par. Loft, B. iii. 35. " Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, " And Tirefias, and Phineus, prophets old : <( Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move " Harmonious numbers, 8tc." Again, in Par. Reg. B. ii. 360, where, after the fame negligent enumeration of perfons, " knights...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...fate, 9o were 1 equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, ami blind Ma;onides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with Ihe year Seasons return ; but not to me returns...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1

1810 - 482 pages
...with tbcm in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Msronides, AndTiresiasand Phineus prophets old: Theu feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers •, as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, hut not to me returns...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phirteue, prophets old: Then feed on droughts, that voluntary move 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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...HOC.LUCTUS.ET.AMORlS.MOXOME!miM LMP 566 POEMS. PART 1. POEMS. PART I. • Smit with the love of sacred song 1 feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers, as the wakeful bird Site darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Milton. Me quoque Musarum Studium...
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