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" 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. "
Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c - Page 180
1824
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Harmonia ruralis; or, An essay towards a natural history of ..., Volume 149

James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...the nightingale have been noticed by many writers. In the Two Gentlemen of Verona, Valentine says, " Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses and record my woes." In Romeo and Juliet the nightingale's protracted song is noticed. Juliet says, ** It is not yet near...
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Herodotus, tr. by W. Beloe, Volume 2

Herodotus - 1830 - 352 pages
...! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than florishing peopled towns. Here 1 can sit alone, unseen of any. And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. — 2'. > by various presents on both sides. His fame had so increased, that he was celebrated through...
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A Descriptive Account of the Second Royal Gala Festival at Stratford-upon ...

1830 - 192 pages
...shadowy desert — these unfrequented woods, "I better brook, than flourishing peopled towns; "Here I can sit alone, unseen of any, " And to the nightingale's...complaining notes, " Tune my distresses and record my woes." Yes, Gentlemen, he preferred solitude and heavenly contemplation on " the willow'd banks" of his own...
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Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1830 - 492 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, f better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can >it alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. Two Gentlemen of Vtronn, act 5. K. 4. As the foregoing distinction between intense and moderate holds...
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Selections from the Choric Poetry of the Greek Dramatic Writers

1832 - 264 pages
...Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well." Comus, 234. And Shakspeare : " Here I can sit alone, unseen of any, And to the Nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes." Two Gent. of Perona, Act V. Sc. 4. But see Coleridge's Poem on the Nightingale : " Most musical, most...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...habit !na manl This shadowy desert, unfrequented wood*, 1 better brook than flourishing peopled towns t te themselves, Finding it so inclin'd. , Mai. With...In my most ill-coinpos'd affection, such A stanchle ') 0 thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Lea^e not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest, growing ruinous,...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 16

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 364 pages
...(2) [" The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : There can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes." — SUAKSPEARE.] (3) [MS. — " Call'd social, where all vice and hatred are. "] XXVII. How lonely...
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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 16

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...(2) [" The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : There can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes." — SHAKSPEARE.] (3) [MS. — " Call'd social, where all vice and hatred are."] How lonely every freeborn...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 16

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 358 pages
...(2) [" The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : There can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes." — SHAKSPEARE.] How lonely every freeborn creature broods ! The sweetest song-birds nestle in a pair;...
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The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His ..., Volume 16

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 360 pages
...WORDSWOHTH'* Laodamia.] sert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : There can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes."— SHAKSPEARE.} ' MS. — " Call'd social, where all vice and hatred arc."] How lonely every freeborn...
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