 | Robert Southey - 1909 - 808 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...of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we aro Bafe ; 158 Then listen to tho perilous tale again, And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terrot... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1909 - 808 pages
...their skill ! . . we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of temposta and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe ; 158 Then listen to the perilous tale again. And with an eager and suspended soul. Woo terror to delight... | |
 | Joseph Ballard - England - 1913 - 210 pages
...my sensations upon this day and better descriptive of them than any observations of my own : " "Tin pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests,...safe, Then — listen to the perilous tale again, Ami with an eager and suspended soul : Woo terror to delight us. But to hear The warring of the raging... | |
 | Luther Albertus Brewer - Books and reading - 1916 - 50 pages
...And for such an evening Lamb recommended The Tempest, or Winter's Tale. For, as another has written : 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe; And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. Lamb, "gentle Elia," maintained that... | |
 | Rupert Christiansen - History - 2002 - 298 pages
...the painting, probably executed by Charlet. A tellingly inappropriate quotation from Robert Southey Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep was printed as an epigraph. 'Nothing is to be done in this town without great names,' complained the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 800 pages
...now were all the seamen's homeward hopes, Vain all their skill ! . . we drove before the storm. 'T is 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,... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1852 - 430 pages
...the grass in a June day. Books of voyages are for winter nights, — for, as Southey says, — "Tss pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe ; And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. We often treat books as companions,... | |
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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. 
