 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...the kind contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening PHILOMELA deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 600 The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove : Nor... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...wood-lark, o'er the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when list'ning Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes,...thought Elate, to make her night excel their day; The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake! The mellow bulfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove; Nor are... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bullf1nch answers from the grove; Nor are... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...jiind_ contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The hlackhird whistles from the thorny hrake; The mellow hullfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 600 The blackbird whistles from the the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch nnswers from the grove :... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...o'er the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 609 The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove: Nor... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...o'er the kind contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...the kind, contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove; Nor are... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy. and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
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Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 
