At last a soft and 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 wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear,... The Works of William E. Channing - Página 14por William Ellery Channing - 1845Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1816 - 436 páginas
...our approach towards it, we were suddenly surprised by the notes of harmony. • " A solemn breathing sound . Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes,...that even Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wiah'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still, to be so displac'd." We listened attentively,... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 páginas
...home-felt delight' as I have experienced in listening to the sounds of a midnight serenade, which, Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air. Even the warbling of a nightingale in a tree near Petrarch's villa, has more powerfully affected me... | |
| James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - 1818 - 406 páginas
...home-felt delight," as I have experienced in listening to the sounds of a midnight serenade, which, Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes^ And stole upon the air. Even the warbling of a nightingale in a tree, near Petrarch's villa, has more powerfully affected me... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 páginas
...efficacious, must be allowed to be of no supernatural dignity or elc" —— a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air." STEEVENS. But doth suffer a sea-change * Into something rich and strange. 0 O Sea-nymphs hourly ring... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 páginas
...silence Gave respite to the drowsy frighted steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep : At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she mi^ht Deny her nature, and be never more Still, to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took in strains... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...the litter of close-curtain'd sleep ; At last a soft and solemn breathing-sound Rose like a steam ot rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that...wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more ul'6 Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that mifiht create a soul Tinder... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 páginas
...They were all silent ; At last a soft and solemn breathing sound Rose, like a stream of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air ; that even Silence...wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more ( Si ill, to be so displaced. / MlLTOK. In a few moments the voice died into air, and the instrument,... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...think thou wilt forgive him, whom his God Can ne'er forgive, nor his own soul. — Farewell ! MUSIC. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that ev'n silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature and be never more, Still... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 836 páginas
...were all silent ; M At last a loft ала eolemn-breatbine Bound Rose, like a stream of rich distilled perfumes. And stole upon the air; that even Silence Was took ere shcwas'warc, and wieh'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still, to be so displac'd."* In... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 páginas
...244—264. SPIRIT. ' At last a soft and solemn breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took... | |
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