 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 216 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...piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Scottish essays - 1859 - 620 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...piece of machinery, which, like the ./Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 212 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...owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .zEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue something... | |
 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1860 - 510 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...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... | |
 | Burns Club of the City of New York - 1860 - 164 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer morn, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ?" Ah, indeed, to what? It is not to farming evidently that it is owing. And these symptoms of back-sliding... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 pages
...elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of 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 of the passing accident ? Oi do these workings argue something... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 390 pages
...Curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of Grey Plovers in an autumnal evening, without feeling an elevation of. soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poesy.' We scarcely like the simile with which Mant concludes his picture of Curlew -life ; as we cannot... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey t Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Kolian harp, Sassivc, takes the impression of the passing... | |
 | Rowley (Mass. : Town) - 1865 - 92 pages
...over with particular delight. I never heard the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a Summer morn, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in the Autumn morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion and poetry."... | |
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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. 
