 | 1816 - 430 pages
...On 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, And stole upon the air ; that even Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never... | |
 | 1816 - 430 pages
...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, And stole upon the air ; that even Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never... | |
 | 1816 - 436 pages
...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, And stole upon the air; that even Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wiah'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep : At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Hose 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 might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pages
...justly question the propriety of the length to which the poet's fancy has carried him. Darkness may aptly be represented by the blackness of the raven...character of Thyrsis — Whose artful strains have oft delay 'd The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. He was retained as a domestic in the Earl of Bridgewater's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Hose 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 might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 pages
...frighted steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep ; 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 wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
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Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air... 
