 Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.  Œuvres complètes - Page 78by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...from a lower chine) Dismounted, on th' Aleir.n field I fall, Erroneous there to wander and forlorn. 20 Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within...above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 412 pages
...I bid adieu to poetry for ever. I wish I could say of my voice what Milton said of his ; that it is Unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen. But, alas ! I am in the condition of Virgil's forlorn shepherd, to whom indeed it better becomes me... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - Authors, Scottish - 1807 - 414 pages
...I bid adieu to poetry for ever. I wish I could say of my voice what Milton said of his ; that it is Unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen. But, alas ! I am in the condition of Virgil's forlorn shepherd, to whom indeed it better becomes me... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 676 pages
...more that he fliould ever bring it to perfection." Yet his tuneful voice was " unchang'd " To hoarie or mute, though fallen on evil days, " On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues ; " In darknels, and with dangers compafs'd round, " And folitude." To Milton indeed the days might now feem... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...from a lower clime), Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall, Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within...above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues;... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...a lower clime), Dismounted, on th' Aleian field I fall, Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn. 20 Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within...the visible diurnal sphere; Standing on earth, not rnpt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fhll'n... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...there to wander, and forlorn. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible dinrnal sphere ; Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...from a lower clime,) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall, Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn. Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear With...the nethermost abyss Might in that noise reside, of fall'n on evil days, On eril days though fall'n, and evil tongues ; In darkness, and with dangers compass'd... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 340 pages
...from a lower clime) Dismounted, on th' Aleian field 1 fall, Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn. 20 Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound, Within...above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse er mute, though fall'n on evil days, ; 25 On evil days though fall'n, and evil... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 404 pages
...I bid adien to poetry for ever. I wish I could say of my voice what Milton said of his : that it is unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen. But, alas! I am in the condition of Virgil's forlorn shepherd, to whom, indeed, it better becomes me... | |
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