 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 - Strana lxxxautor/autoři: John Milton - 1851 - 415 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Sharon Achinstein - 2003 - 330 str.
...Book Three of Paradise Lost, likewise sympathizes with that creature of darkness, the nightingale: "Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move/ Harmonious...the wakeful Bird/ Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid/ Tunes her nocturnal Note" (PL, 3:37-40), evoking the traditional figure of song, but also... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 str.
...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;...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 Day,... | |
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