...Though numberless, I never shall forget. Dennam. Loud as from numbers without number. Milton. Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move, Harmonious numbers, as the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Id. About his chariot numberless were poured Cherub and. seraph. Id. Paradise Lost. As one diamond...

...with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's...

...fonder of countries still farther to the westward. You must pardon my scrawling brevity, for now '" The wakeful bird Sings darkling ; and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note.'" In humble prose, 'tis midnight; and, moreover, the heat of the weather, even at this hour, envelops...

...denominations ! ! The nightingale was a favourite of Milton, who, in one place, prettily and truly says, -" the wakeful bird Sings darkling ; and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." 26 In another place he says, ' She all night long her amorous descant sung ;' Which is false, for she...

...Thamyris, and blind Meeonides ; **» »-<v»>-1'— 35 And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year K Seasons return : but not to me returns Day^or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...

...prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numhers ; as the wakeful hird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her...Seasons return : hut not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal hloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or...

...them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mseonides, 33 And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...hid Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 25 quench'd] drench'd....

...hallowed verse. Under an inspiration more holy than that which Milton had ever felt, they delighted to 'Feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.' Within one year after their conversion they published, with their joint names, a volume of ' Hymns...

...them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. v\ Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or...

... ' . jr. > MIDNIGHT MUSINGS A COLLECTION IT VARIOUS SUBJECTS,. THOUGHTS that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as...in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. MILTON. DEMERARA: PRINTED AT THF. COURIER OFFICE, 18, SOUTH-STREET. OK PREFACE. IN offering to his...