 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 pages
...soft murmurings lulled each other to rest, and then pours forth his full tide of melody. - 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1850 - 800 pages
...kind-eontending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length 600 Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night exeel their day. The blaek-bird whistles from the thorny brake , The mellow bull-fineh answers from... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bulfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening eaven ; and thence shall come. When this world's dissolution shall be ripe. W The black-bird whistles from the thomy brake ; The mellow bull-finch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 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 blackbird whistles from the thorny brake, The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove ; Nor are... | |
 | James Thomson, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 408 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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...the kind eontending 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 exeel the day. Thomson's Seasora. All abandon'd to despair, she sings Her sorrows through the night... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 black-bird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove: Nor are... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela1 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 bulfinch answers from the grove ; Nor are... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 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 black-bird whistles from the thorny brake j The pfellow bujlfinch answers from the grove : Nor... | |
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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. 
