 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 σελίδες
...were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old.* Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...numbers; as the wakeful bird* Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns... | |
 | Sharon Achinstein - 2003 - 334 σελίδες
...Book Three of Paradise Lost, likewise sympathizes with that creature of darkness, the nightingale: "Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move/ Harmonious...numbers; as the wakeful Bird/ Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid/ Tunes her nocturnal Note" (PL, 3:37-40), evoking the traditional figure of song,... | |
 | Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - 2006 - 280 σελίδες
...stressed vowel sounds (particularly long vowels and diphthongs) for euphonious effect (Paradise Lost, 3): Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird. A further kind of variation is the breaking up of excessive regularity in parallelistic patterns, whether... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 σελίδες
...of visual beauty is expressed in poetry of much aural beauty as he laments his blindness but feeds on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns... | |
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Those other two equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,... 
