| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under...sister. Amaz'd I stood, harrow'd with grief and fear, And, O poor hapless nightingale, thought I, How sweet thou sings't, how near the deadly snare ! Then... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...ware, and leish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under...sister. Amaz'd I stood, harrow'd with grief and fear, And, O poor hapless nightingale, thought I, How sweet thou sings't, luno near the deadly snare! Then... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under...Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honor'd lady, your dear sister. Amaz'd I stood, harrow'd with grief and fear, And, O poor hapless nightingale,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...ware, and wish' d she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under...Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honor'd lady, your dear sister. Amaz'd I stood, harrow'd with grief and fear, And, 0 poor hapless nightingale,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under...Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honor'd lady, your dear sister. Amaz'd I stood, harrow'd with grief and fear, And, O poor hapless nightingale,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displafd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death : but 0 ! ere long, Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honor'd lady, your dear sister. Amaz'd... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death : but 0 ! ere long, Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honor'd lady, your dear sister. Amaz'd... | |
| William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 436 pages
...'ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. " Lines 555 - 563. In illustration of Milton's tenderness, we will open almost at a venture. " Now... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 532 pages
...SENTINEL. Where should this music be ? i ' the air , or the earth ? The Tempest. — I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Comui. QUESTIN had hardly reached his little cahin , in order to make some necessary changes in his... | |
| 1846 - 512 pages
...consists in this. They are made of quite other material. The heart of Saul, even when he " was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death," was no more like the heart of a believing saint, than hell is like heaven! There is no inconsistency... | |
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