| 1837 - 1322 pages
...beautiful language, he is " A lone stray ; li'm-. whose little life, By strangers' bounty chensh'd, like a wave That from the summer sea a wanton breeze...a moment's sparkle, will subside Light as it rose" — According to the description given of him by Agenor, " By no internal contest train'd," his " being's... | |
| sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1835 - 232 pages
...celestial music on the breeze As clearly as the pipe whose virgin gold Befits the lip of Phoebus ; — ye are wise, And needed by your country; ye are fathers:...subside Light as it rose, nor leave a sigh in breaking. MEDON. Ion, no sigh ! ION. Forgive me if I seem'd To doubt that thou wilt mourn me if I fall, Nor would... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 608 pages
...for the sad ones His entreaty to be entrusted with the message to the king is in these words : — And needed by your country; ye are fathers: I am a...subside Light as it rose, nor leave a sigh in breaking.' From an interview which succeeds between Ion and Clemanthe, the daughter of his guardian high-priest,... | |
| British periodicals - 1836 - 650 pages
...celestial music on the breeze As clearly as the pipe whose virgin gold Befits the lip of Phoebus ; — ye are wise. And needed by your country ; ye are fathers...subside Light as it rose, nor leave a sigh in breaking. Medon. Ion, no sigh ! /on. Forgive me if I seem'd ' To doubt that thou wilt mourn me if I fall ; Nor... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1836 - 590 pages
...celestial music on the breeze As clearly as the pipe whose virgin gold Befits the Up of Pfuebus ; — ye are wise, And needed by your country ; ye are fathers...subside Light as it rose, nor leave a sigh in breaking" — p. 14. The idea of Heaven selecting a reed from a marsh to be its instrument is new. The comparison... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1836 - 748 pages
...celestial music on the breeze, As clearly as the pipe whose virgin gold Befits the lip of Phoebus. Ye are wise, And needed by your country ; ye are fathers...subside Light as it rose, nor leave a sigh in breaking. " The loves of Ion and Clemanthe," he said, " are pourtrayed with a classical elegance, and with a... | |
| sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1836 - 140 pages
...celestial music on the breeze As clearly as the pipe whose virgin gold Befits the lip of Phoebus;—ye are wise, And needed by your country ; ye are fathers...subside Light as it rose, nor leave a sigh in breaking. Ion, no sigh ! MEDON. ION. Forgive me if I seem'd To doubt that thou wilt mourn me if I fall ; Nor... | |
| English essays - 1836 - 746 pages
...virgin gold Befits the lip of I'liwlnis. Ye are wise, And needed by your country ; ye are fathers j I am a lone stray thing, whose little life By strangers'...subside Light as it rose, nor leave a sigh in breaking. " The loves of Ion and Clemanthe," he said, " are pourtrayed with a classical elegance, and with a... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 604 pages
...celestial music on the breezo As clearly as the pipe whose virgin gold Befits the lip of Plwebus ; — ye are wise, And needed by your country ; ye are fathers...stray thing, whose little life By strangers' bounty cherish 'd, like a wave That from the summer sea a wanton breeze Lifts for a moment's sparkle, will... | |
| Serial publications - 1837 - 536 pages
...shed celestial music on the breeze As clearly as the pipe whose virgin gold Befits the lip of Phoebus ;—ye are wise, And needed by your country ; ye are...subside Light as it rose, nor leave a sigh in breaking." His request is acceded to, and he but craves to bid farewell to Clemanthe, the daughter of his patron,... | |
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