 Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!  The North British Review - Page 3221853Full view - About this book
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 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
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 | 1806 - 408 pages
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 | Martin Davy - 1809 - 28 pages
...'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night. Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!" Il Penser. 5Ь. ' .'«.«k» 15 " I cannot light upon the passage in the Odyssey, where Penelope's... | |
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