 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...hang over with particular delight. I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray...Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing 1 ' Are we a piece of machinery, which, like, the ^o'lian harp, passive, takes the impression of the... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1852 - 336 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 JEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident! Or do these workings argue something... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grav plover in an autumnal morning, without feefing an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion...owing! Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .fiolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without i'eeling an elevation of soul, like the enthusiasm of devotion...Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing Î Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Kolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 pages
...loud 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...Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing P Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing... | |
 | English literature - 1853 - 604 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...soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.'" Now, we have our own ornithological doubts whether he, " Who walked in glory and in joy, Following... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 342 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...my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we apiece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident?... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, Scottish - 1854 - 98 pages
...loud 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...Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing P Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .ZEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 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...devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can all this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 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...devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can all this be 9* owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the... | |
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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. 
