| 1913 - 878 pages
...paralleled with the work of Botticelli or Fra Angelico. Sometimes it seems to be a beauty of sound: — "The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...poplar pale The parting genius Is with sighing sent." Bnt it is not only image or sound, nor is it the thought that moves us here, for a kind of intoxication... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...leaving No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the palc-ey'd priest from the prophetic cellThe Edg'd with poplar pale, POETS. JOHN MILTON. With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...leaving : No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament ; b'rom haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent :... | |
| Leonhard Schmitz - 1844 - 458 pages
...associated with that wild and striking legend, which we must again describe in the words of Milton— The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard and loud lament. Sicily in like manner affords a remarkable instance of the erection of a fabric of geographical mythology... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1844 - 502 pages
...held their peace." The words in which Milton refers to this incident in his Ode on the Nativity,— " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament,"— will recur to the memory of the English traveller, as he sails over this spot, particularly if it be... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...leaving ; No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn," etc. But we condemn not the poem of our author, because it does not equal Milton's! It has much beauty... | |
| 1845 - 356 pages
...leaving; No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses lorn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn 11 In consecrated earth, And on the holy... | |
| Thomas Henry White - 1845 - 474 pages
...celebrates tonight the Vigil of a Roman Catholic Saint. The great Bard's Exorcism is not as yet complete ! The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent. With flower-en woven tresses torn, The Nymphs in tangled shade of twilight thickets mourn. Let me not omit... | |
| Thomas Henry White - 1845 - 492 pages
...celebrates tonight the Vigil of a Roman Catholic Saint. The great Bard's Exorcism is not as yet complete ! The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent. With flower-enwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs in tangled shade of twilight thickets mourn. Let me not omit... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping3 heard and loud lament : From haunted spring and dale,...nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. 1 Unexpressive— inexpressible — such as cannot be described. 8 The oracles, Sfc. — All the heathen... | |
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