 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. The Danger of the Deep. 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...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, Avail... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...song, " Ye gentlemen of England, who sit at home at ease," are the following impressive lines : — " '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... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 822 pages
...now, were all the seamen's homeward hopes ! Vain all their skill ! . . ЛУе drove before the storm. Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests...perilous tale again, And, with an eager and suspended sonl, Woo terror to delight us. But to hear The roaring of the raging elements, To know all human skill,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Suffering. Deep. Howl. Avail. Mariner. Pause. 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests,1 and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and...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, Avail... | |
 | William Allen Drew - Great Exhibition - 1852 - 440 pages
...with a hearty " good morning" and a blessing, seeming to have forgotten their late labor and danger. " Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests,...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, Avail... | |
 | William Allen Drew - Great Exhibition - 1852 - 442 pages
...with a hearty " good morning" and a blessing, seeming to have forgotten their late labor and danger. " Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests,...dangers of the deep, And pause at times and feel that we aie safe ; Then listen to the perilous tale again, And with an eager and suspended soul Woo terror... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1852 - 860 pages
...deepest interest in winter, while the hail dashes against the window. Southey speaks of this delight— "Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...dangers of the deep. And pause at times and feel that we arc safe; And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us." 'The «ob* of the storm... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...everlasting hills Smiled in the joyful sunshine: they partook The universal blessing. THE TEMPEST. 'Tia pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests,...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Biography - 1853 - 400 pages
...which o'er a world of wickedness Spreads its eternal canopy serene." And again, in the same poem — " 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of...are safe, Then listen to the perilous tale again, .l/i"! » ilk an eager and suspended soul Woo terror to delight us." In Roderic is a fine and characteristic... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...cumbere. Per'il-ous, adj periculum. A-vaiT, v valere. I Suffer-ing, part ferre. | Mar'i-ner, » , mare. 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests,...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, Avail... | |
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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. 
