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...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...hid , Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return , but not to me returns Day , or the sweet approach of even or morn , Or sight of vernal...

...were I equal'd with them in renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineas, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in the shadiest cover hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. 8. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to...

...equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Meeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old; Then feed...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...

...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mteonides,* And Tiresias and Phineas, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tnnes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet...

...others." So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides,1 And Tiresias,2 and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...

...Milton, in his Address to Light , compares himself to the Nightingale in these words : — " Then fced on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her noeturnal note.'' Moore, however, has tho following stanza on a comparison betwcen love and the Nightingale's...

...circumstances of blank, rayless desolation — poised on his own supreme spirituality — have loftily fed " on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers,...in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." All minds must be impressed by the strange excelling appositeness of the " similitude" in this case....

...were I equal'd with them in renown I Blind Thamyris, and blind Mseonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineas, prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in the shadiest cover hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. 6. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to...

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