 This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.  Temple Bar - Page 5261885Full view - About this book
 | British periodicals - 1821 - 690 pages
...shadowy desart, unfrequented wood*, He better brook'd than flourishing peopled towns ; There could he sit alone, unseen of any, , And to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune his distresses, and record his woes." It would be useless to multiply instances in prcof of this doctrine,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record 3 my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 500 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.3 J ——record miI woes.'] To record anciently signified to sing. To record is a term still... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...shadowy desert, unfrequented woofls, **, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.4 O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest, growing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.4 O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest, growing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes 7S. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes. 0 thou, that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing ruinous,... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - English fiction - 1807 - 352 pages
...This shadowing desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopl'd towns, Here I cm sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses) and record my woes.' Scarcely had the sound of my own voice ceased to vibrato on my ear, ere another, softer and more sweet... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 552 pages
...be read elliptically. Besides, we had "friar Patrick's cell " before in p. 263. Sc. 4. p. 280. VAL. And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. It has been already observed that this term refers to the singing of birds. It should have been added... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 560 pages
...be read elliptically. Besides, we had "friar Patrick's cell " before in p. 263. Sc. 4. p. .280. VAL. And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. It has been already observed that this term refers to the singing of birds. It should have been added... | |
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