 Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake," With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once...  The Christian Observer - Pàgina 2531818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pàgines
...purer spring ! This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing, To waft me from distraction : once I loved Lone ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pàgines
...for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distractions ; — once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 pàgines
...— for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. Once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds...That I, with stern delights, should e'er have been to moved." And speaking of the exquisite loveliness of Claren^ he sings— " He who hath loved not,... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pàgines
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds...as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delight should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and thy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...pure poetical source. An evening «cene by the side of the lake is thus exquisitely described >— ucture, and the latter its ' Corinthian uulunins.' • [Fi-ora the Spee dnsk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen— Save darkened Jura, whose capped heights... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pàgines
...a dark eye in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. a. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pàgines
...a dark eye in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 8. They are the native courtesies of a feeh'ng mind, showing themselves amid stern virtues and masculine... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pàgines
...for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I lov'd Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reprov'd, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so mov'd. It is the hush of night, and all... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pàgines
...once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reF roved, with stern delights should e'er have been so moved....margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingled, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd J ura, w hose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ;... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 pàgines
...waters for a purer spring ! This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." CHAP, ii.] THE RHONE IN THE LAKE. 9 The lesson of the quiet sail is lost on board the anxious steamer... | |
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