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" I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. "
Poems: By John G. Whittier, Illus. by H. Billing - Page iii
by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 396 pages
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A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges

John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 412 pages
...finer example of the alternation of liquid and rugged sounds, than the following lines from Whittier: I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. What sweeter English was ever written than this description of the fall of Mulciber? (P. Lost, I, 738-746.)...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Issue 640

John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1874 - 500 pages
...necessary to say that its subject is not such as the writer would have chosen at any suhsequent period. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. The songs...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 418 pages
...not such aa the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AXESBUBT, Ktk 3d mo., 1967. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To hreathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier with Numerous ...

John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 316 pages
...chosen at any subsequent period. JGW Aиsзsсsт, 1&Л 3d mo., 185". PROEM. I LOVE the old melodions lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs...days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noun of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes...
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The Science of Rhetoric: An Introduction to the Laws of Effective Discourse

David Jayne Hill - English language - 1877 - 330 pages
...unmelodious sounds. Bow delightful arc the feelings aroused by such music as this of Whittier's . ' I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew." With what irritation do we hear such a line as thia " Orate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw."...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...is not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMKSBURY, MA ytmo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden clays, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet,...
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Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 pages
...the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. jaw AXUBÜRT, !:-'/, :;./ mo., 1857. 278284 PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The ¿bugs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon oi' time with...
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Washington Irving

David Jayne Hill - 1879 - 252 pages
...anachronism. Hence also he probably derived that musical flow of language that so often reminds us of " The old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew." About this period Irving made a journey that ever lingered in his memory as one of the most delightful...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 pages
...not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent I oeriod. JGW AUBSBURY, iSM ylmo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's goiden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew....
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 464 pages
...any subsequent period. j. a w. AKESBUKT, Vn>k.,:,l mo., 1857. PEOEM. I LOVE the old melodious laya Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's...in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes 1 try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad...
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