 Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess The might — the majesty of Loveliness...  THE DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL - Page 286by Philip Dixon Hardy - 1836Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...Was she — the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears — but not of grief. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...above, Was she— the daughter of thut rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears — but not of grief. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...heaven's unspeakable and holy joy, Where all perfectiou makes the sum of bliss. Mrs. Hale. MAJESTY OF. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay, To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until bis failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, Uis changing... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1892 - 768 pages
...belongs rather to general liistory than to the particular and private incidents of our tale. CHAPTER V. " Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beimty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing .sight Faints into dimness with Its own... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...Was she — the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears — but not of grief. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly n; ; Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night. — Shakespeare: * Romeo and Juliet, 'Act II. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight. His changing... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...That birds would sing, and think it were not night. — Shakespeare: • Romeo and Juliet, • Act II. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Paints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all save the spirit of man is divine ? nod, Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beanty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...above Was she— the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears — but not of grief. ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | Nicholas Senn - Manuscripts, English - 1906 - 366 pages
...felt keenly the shortcomings of human art, and realized, to the fullest extent, the force and truth of Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray. BYRON. .All painters place the greatest importance upon a proper background for their pictures... | |
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