 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 Seiten
...distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and leish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still...was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death : but O ! ere long, Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 Seiten
...solemn-breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she...Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displafd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death : but... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1845 - 436 Seiten
...solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she...Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. " Lines... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 552 Seiten
...distilled perfumee, "And stole upon the air, that even silence " Was took croche was ware, and wished she might " Deny her nature, and be never more " Still to be so displaced." " How sweetly did they float upon the wings " Of silence, through the empty vaulted night,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 532 Seiten
...CHAPTER X. THE SENTINEL. Where should this music be ? i ' the air , or the earth ? The Tempest. — I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Comui. QUESTIN had hardly reached his little cahin , in order to make... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 Seiten
...solemn-breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she...was all ear, And took in strains that might create a sound Under the ribs of death. The illustration of that inimitable stroke of the power of the Lady's... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 Seiten
...of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, & wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I waa all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death : but... | |
 | 1872 - 500 Seiten
...to which, even more than to the glorious " Creation," the words of Milton may be justly applied : " I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death." Several biographies have been written of Handel and of Haydn, and the... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 Seiten
...solemn-breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even silence Was took ere she was 'ware and wish'd she...was all ear And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death. " Till an unusual stop of sudden silence," &c. Explain this and the two... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 Seiten
...solemn-breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even silence Was took ere she was 'ware and wish'd she...was all ear And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death." " Till an unusual stop of sudden silence," &c. Explain this and the... | |
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