 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...solitary whistle of the curfew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or, do these workings argue something within... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1898 - 664 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a Summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey-plover in an Autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, that, like the .-Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do these workings... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...cadence of a troop of grry plover, in an I muse , — and allow me to add, that if it is your autumn«! morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like...owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ¿folian harp, passive, takes the irapression of the passing accident ? Or do these workopinion they... | |
 | Erastus Darrow - 1850 - 104 pages
...the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew, in a summer noon, or the mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an...a piece of machinery, which like the Eolian harp, passive takes the impression of the passing accident 1 Or do these workings argue something within... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...hang over with particular delight. I never heard the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in i summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray...of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to whst can this be owing. Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the... | |
 | 1850 - 138 pages
...cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soulliks the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my...a piece of machinery, which like the Eolian harp, passive takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do these working* argue something within... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew, in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plorer, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing 1 Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ¿¡alian harp, passive, takes the imprcseion of the... | |
 | William Thompson - Zoology - 1850 - 372 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey [golden] plover, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an...soul, like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry/' From Burns, the transition to Scotland, and especially to Ayrshire, is natural ! When grouse-shooting... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the , Kol ian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident? Or do these workings argue something... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my -1.ear friend, to what can this be owing ? are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp,... | |
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I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. 
