 | Robert Southey - 1880 - 724 pages
...serene." Aud again, in the same poem : — u'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests nnd the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel...safe; Then listen to the perilous tale again, And wilh an eayer and ctupended tool Wuo terror to deliyht us." In " Roderick " is a fine and characteristic... | |
 | Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby - Shipwrecks - 1882 - 168 pages
...RECENT TIMES: 1869 to 188O. BT MRS. SAXBY, AUTHOR OF "ROCK-BOUND," "HTORIES OF SHETLAND.' ETC, ETC. " 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...of the deep. And pause at times, and feel that we arc safe, Then listen to the perilous tale again." T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW. EDINBURGH ;... | |
 | Art - 1885 - 470 pages
...A STORY ABOUT THE WEST BAY. BY JOHN JACKSON. Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of perils, and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times and...are safe, Then listen to the perilous tale again. r I "*HE Backwater, which separates the two ancient -*- boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, both... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Poetry of places - 1887 - 390 pages
...Vain now were all the seamen's homeward hopes, Vain all their skill ! ... we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. ... But to hear The roaring of the raging elements, . . . To know all human skill, all human strength,... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will! Frances S. Osyood, Mass., 1813-1850. 19. The Tempest. Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests,...an eager and suspended soul, Woo Terror to delight us:—but to hear The roaring of the raging elements,— To know all human skill, all human strength... | |
 | Sidney Perley - New England - 1891 - 434 pages
...Yellow Day of 1 88 1, .... 336 LXXVIII. Cyclone at Lawrence, Mass., in 189o, . . 338 INTRODUCTION. "Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us." SOME of the readers of this volume after they have finished its perusal will probably pronounce it... | |
 | Science - 1895 - 900 pages
...hideous and prosaic with all the colors of the rainbow, so that we are able to take pleasure in tragedy, "And with an eager and suspended soul Woo terror, to delight us." If we survey the faces of a crowd of people at a concert, we find that they offer scarcely a hint of... | |
 | Scotland - 1895 - 1322 pages
...and prosaic with all the colours of the rainbow, so that we are able to take pleasure in tragedy, " And with an eager and suspended soul Woo terror, to delight us." If we survey the faces of a crowd of people at a concert, we find that they offer scarcely a hint of... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - English language - 1897 - 368 pages
...rain overhead. Coates Kinney — " Rain on the Roof." (7)'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, t6 hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep ; And...times and feel that we are safe, Then listen to the perilofis tale again. Southey — " Modoc." (8). Mother, thy child is blessed ; And though his presence... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Books and reading - 1907 - 288 pages
...hearth to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe; And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us." The sobs of the storm are musical chimes for a ghost story, or one of those fearful tales with which... | |
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Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe ; Then listen to the perilous tale again, And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. 
