 The intrepid Swiss, who guards a foreign shore, Condemned to climb his mountain-cliffs no more, If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild Which on those cliffs his infant hours beguiled, Melts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise, And sinks a...  Poems - Page 21by Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1856 - 824 pages
...If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild, Which oil those cliffs his infant hours beguiled, Molts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise, And sinks a martyr to repentant sighs. Veil did Byron say of Napoleon I., in 1814, that " the world was worth neither the trouble taken in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...more, If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild Which on those cliffs his infant hours heguiled, Melts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise,...not if courts or camps dissolve the charm : Say why Vespasian1 loved his Sahine farm? Why great Navarre,z when France and Freedom hled, Sought the lone... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1858 - 156 pages
...more, If chance he hears that song, so sweet, so wild, His heart would spring to hear it when a child, Melts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise,...the charm ; Say why VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm ; AVhy great NAVARRE, when France and freedom bled, Sought the lone limits of a forest-shed. When DIOCLETIAN'S... | |
 | Calcutta univ - 1859 - 254 pages
...heart would spring to hear it when a child, Melts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise, It" And sinks a martyr to repentant sighs. Ask not if...Say why VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm; Why great NAVAEEE, when France and freedom bled, Sought the lone limits of a forest-shed. When DIOCLETIAN'S self-corrected... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Skepticism - 1859 - 410 pages
...mountain-cliffs no more, If chance he hear the song, so sweetly wild, Which, on those cliffs, his infant hour beguiled, Melts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise, And sinks a martyr to repentant sighs. * Rush, on the Mind, pp. 38, 39. Those who have watched over a collection of boys, drawn, as is often... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...more, If chance he hears the song so sweet, so wild,17 His heart would spring to hear it when a child, Melts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise....the charm : Say why VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm ; 18 Why great NAVARRE, when France and Freedom bled,18 Sought the lone limits of a forest-shed. When... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1860 - 766 pages
...shore, Condemned to climb liis mountain-cliffs no more, If chance he hears that song, so sweetly wild, Which on those cliffs his infant hours beguiled, Melts...him rise, And sinks, a martyr to repentant sighs." No : it is not peculiar. I cite it as a fact in nature. It is a part of our humanity. A touch of that... | |
 | George Washington Doane - American literature - 1860 - 746 pages
...shore, Condemned to climb his mountain-dill-, no more, If chance he hears that song, so sweetly wild, Which on those cliffs his infant hours beguiled, Melts...that round him rise, And sinks, a martyr to repentant sigha." No : it is not peculiar. I cite it as a fact in nature. It is a part of our humanity. A touch... | |
 | George Washington Doane - American literature - 1860 - 744 pages
...that song, so sweetly wild, Which on those cliffs his infant hours beguiled, Kelts at the long-lust scenes that round him rise, And sinks, a martyr to repentant sighs." No : it is not peculiar. I cite it as a fact in nature. It is a part of our humanity. A touch of that... | |
 | Walter Maynard (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Willert Beale.]), Thomas Willert Beale - Impresarios - 1867 - 438 pages
...shore, Condemned to climb his mountain cliffs no more ; If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild Which on those cliffs his infant hours beguiled, Melts...him rise, And sinks a martyr to repentant sighs." — ROGEKS. The monotonous music of the Chinese has a fascination for the people of that nation certainly... | |
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