| John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...Glittering with dew ; nor fragrance after showen ; Nor grateful Evening mild ; nor silent -Yig./i/, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without THEE, is sweet ! THOMSON, also, whose soul was attuned to tenderness, exclaims : But happy THET, the happiest of their... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ning with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon Or glitt'ring starlight, without thee is sweet. PARADISE LOST — BOOK IV. 1. 634. The repetitions in... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; .• - -Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, 655 •4. Or glittering starlight, withouyiaflwii. sweet. To whom our general ancestor replied : •***... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1832 - 260 pages
...; nor herb, fruit, flow'r, GUst'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Nor grateful ev'ning mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird...Or glittering star-light — without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn...nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without these is sweet. Voir Dieu dans mon époux est ma suprême loi : Une femme doit-elle en savoir davantage... | |
| Robert Bridges - Church music - 870 pages
...delightful land, nor herb, fruit, floure, clistring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful Evening mild, nor silent Night with this her solemn Bird, nor walk by Moon, Or glittering StarrAight without thee is sweet. 'The variety of images in this passage is infinitely pleasing, and... | |
| Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...delightful land, nor herb, fruit, floure, Glistring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful Evening mild, nor silent Night With this her solemn Bird, nor walk by Moon, Or glittering Starr-light without thee is sweet. (IV, 639-656) Beginning and ending with "thee," her poem revolves... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...delightful land, nor herb, fruit, floure, Glistring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful Evening mild, nor silent Night With this her solemn Bird, nor walk by Moon, Or glittering Starr-light without thee is sweet. [4.641-56] Brief examples of this sort of repetitive technique are... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r. Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful Ev'ning mild, nor silent Night With this her solemn Bird,...Moon, Or glittering Star-light without thee is sweet. (4.639-56) Eve's rondo, with its gracious, dancelike measures,57 recalls the imagery of Milton's early... | |
| Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 pages
...land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful Ev'ning mild, nor silent Night With this her solemn Bird,...Moon, Or glittering Star-light without thee is sweet. (PL 4.650-6) Readers have often noted that, even in denying the attractiveness of nature without Adam's... | |
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