 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...beguil'd: A solemn, strange, and mingled air! 'Twas sad by fits — by starts 'twas wild. But thou, 0 Hope! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?...touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the wood, the vale, She call'd on Echo, still thro' all the song; And where her sweetest theme she chose,... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...his grief beguil'd : A solemn, strange, and mingled air : 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy...bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would ber touch the strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1828 - 542 pages
...Bntthou, О Hope, with eres so fair, What was thy delighted measure '.' Still it whisner'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the «train prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the rale, She call'd on Echo still through all the... | |
 | William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...Fair, if never Her rash hand with vain endeavour. — Poetical Character. And the'second of these— But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ?•— The Passions. Such passages (and many others are like them) might also serve to exempt his... | |
 | William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...sounds his grief beguil'd, A solemn, strange, and mingled air, Twas sad by fits, by starts, 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? . E 2 Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bad the lovely scenes at distance hail '. Still would... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1828 - 540 pages
...pleasure, amidst the echo of surrounding and responsive rocks, and woods, and valleys. Bot thou, О Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure '/ Still it whieper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely reçue« at distance liaii. Still would her touch... | |
 | William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1830 - 234 pages
...particularly of Despair : " With woful measures wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled, A solemn, strange, and mingled air, Twas sad by fits,...What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong,... | |
 | William Collins - 1830 - 240 pages
...his grief beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? so Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...his grief beguiled; A solemn, strange, and mingled air; 'Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope! with eyes so fair, What was thy...pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. 5. Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air : 'Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild. But thou, 0 Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the... | |
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twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail... 
