 Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...  The Poems of Ossian: &c - Pàgina 423per James Macpherson - 1805Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 432 pàgines
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world...cannot repeat the lines : it is in his " Winter." There is another very fine picture in one of them. It describes the breaking of the clouds after the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pàgines
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an /Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit. 25. The foundations of his fame are laid deep and imperishable, and the superstructure is already erected.... | |
 | Charles De Berard Mills - 1889 - 296 pàgines
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an yEolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." Hence came Echo, the Windgod and the Storm-god, the Spirit of the stream and water-fall. Otfried Miiller... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pàgines
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." It was not of course likely that Gray's letters would ever attain a very wide popularity ; to appreciate... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 pàgines
...speaks of a book on the " exploits des rois et des he"ros du Nord " published at Stockholm in 1737. harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." 1 Gray continued to correspond with his friends about Ossian, saying that he had "gone mad" about it.2... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 pàgines
...exploits des rois et des heros du Nord " published at Stockholm in 1737. 2 Works, Vol. III., page 45. harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." 1 Gray continued to correspond with his friends about Ossian, saying that he had " gone mad " about... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 pàgines
...speaks of a book on the " exploits des rois et des heios du Nord " published at Stockholm in 1737. harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." * Gray continued to correspond with his friends about Ossian, saying that he had "gone mad" about it.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 252 pàgines
...ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an y£olian harp ? I do assure you there is 20 nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit....cannot repeat the lines : it is in his " Winter." There is another 25 very fine picture in one of them. It describes the breaking of the clouds after... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 618 pàgines
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." These pieces produced on him just the same effect of exciting and stimulating mystery that had been... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - 1894 - 350 pàgines
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." That Macpherson should have been unable to return a satisfactory answer to Gray's " thousand inquiries"... | |
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