...II Penseroso, the ideas of which were ' excellently suited to my present wanderings of ' thought. " Sweet bird! that shun'st the noise of folly, " Most musical ! most melancholy ! " Thee, chauntress, off, the woods among, " I woo to hear thy evening song ; " And missing thee,...

...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear ihy even-song ; And missing thee, I wall: unseen...

...p GRAND SIMPHONY. Haydn. SONG. Mrs. DICKONS. ' Handel. (Accompanied on1 the Flute by Mr. JACKSON') Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song. AIR and DOUBLE CHORUS. Handel....

...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. " Sweet bird ! that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical ! most melancholy ! Thee, cliantress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee I walk...

...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk...

...quote the whole couplet alluded to by him, and then my honourable friend may be thus addressed : " Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy." Mr. GRATTAN observed — Sir, I did not say, as the right honourable gentleman seemed to conceive,...

...serenade that most delights the Poet, and of which Milton is mindful in Allegro: — To the Nightingale. Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, Chantress, oft, the Woods among, I woo, to hear thy Evening Song. Petrarch's beautiful sonnet,...

...;" and in his poem, entitled " II Penseroso," he thus speaks of this enchanting songstress : — - " Sweet bird that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, , - 1 woo to hear thy even song." That beautiful little bird...

...Milton's 11 Penseroso : " To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan IHIT.. Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy I Thee chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, 1 walk unseen...

...Bacon's Es*ayt. Such miuick Before was never made But when of old the sons of morning sung. Milton. Sweet bird that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy, Thee chauntress, oft the wood among, I woo to hear thy even song. Id. Now look into the musics-master's...