 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...the kind contending thronç 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1868 - 846 pages
...contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes, when listening Philomel« 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 - 1826 - 430 pages
...o'er thè kind-contending throng Superior beard , riin through thè sweetest length Of notes ; when list'ning Philomela deigns To let them joy , and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night e\cel their day. , The blackhird whistles from thè thorny brake j The mellow bullfinch answers from... | |
 | James Jennings (of Huntspill.) - 1828 - 528 pages
...the kind contending throng Superior heard, run throngh 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 Blackhird whistles from the thorny brake, The mellow Bulfinch answers from the grove; Nor are the... | |
 | James Jennings - 1828 - 526 pages
...throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length , Of notes; when listening Philomela deigus 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 Bulfinch answers from the grove; Nor are the... | |
 | 1829 - 494 pages
...murmurings lulled each other to rest, and then he displays, at full, his melodious faculties. Listening Philomela deigns, To let them joy, and purposes in...small a bird should be endowed with such potent lungs. If the evening is calm, it is supposed that its song may be heard above half a mile. This bird, the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 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 bulfinch answers from the grove ; Nor are... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela dcigns To let them joy, and purposes in thought Elate, to make her night excel thpir day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake, The mellow bulfinch answers from the grove... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 878 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 Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes, when listening Philomela deign To let them joy ; and purposes in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day." The plaintive notes of the nightingale have been noticed by many writers. In the Two Gentlemen of Verona,... | |
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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. 
