I visit; nor sometimes forget 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;... The Works of the British Poets - Page 25by Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 pagesFull view - About this book
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...hallow'd feet , and warbling flow , Nightly I visit; nor sometimes forget Those other two equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides , And Tiresias and Phincus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1962 - 598 pages
...examples of it abundantly; compare this from Milton: — nor sometimes forget 10 Those other two equal with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mseonides — with this from Goethe: — Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, 15 Sich ein Character... | |
| 1909 - 502 pages
...in fate, (So were I equalled with them in renown !) Blind Thamyris and blind Maconides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts...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... | |
| Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...reflects on his own sightless eyes, Milton's thoughts turn to the nightingale singing in darkness: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious...numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. How consciously Keats remembered this passage one cannot... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...at the beginning of Book III of Paradise Lost: . . . nor sometimes forget Those other two 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 thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious... | |
| William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor sometimes forget Those other two 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 thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...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; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (3.37-40) Eve sings her nocturn as she and Adam move... | |
| Paul H. Fry - 1995 - 276 pages
...thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor sometime forget Those other two equall'd with me in Fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides. (HU5-35) Maonides is Homer and Thamyris is the bard mentioned in the Iliad who was blinded... | |
| Eleanor Cook - 1998 - 352 pages
...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 pages
...darkness: So were I equalled with them in renown. Blmd Thaniyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that...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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