 twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...  Nature of the mind - Page 302by John Mason Good - 1834Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...grief beguil'd ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; "f was sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail \ Still would her touch the strain prolong,... | |
 | Catherine George Mason, afterwards MASON WARD (Catharine George) - 1821 - 802 pages
...prospects which surrounded him, and he involuntarily exclaimed in the words of the inspired bard,— " But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, " What was thy delighted measure ? " Still it whispered promised pleasure i " And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail." Ah ! why must we remove... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...grief beguil'd J A solemn, 8trang«, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad liy fitf:, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it \vhis,per'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...hand the strings. 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 ? Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure. And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail Still would her touch the strain prolong... | |
 | Oratory - 1822 - 116 pages
...his grief beguil'd A solemn, strange, and mi. gled ajr, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild, But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper d promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...hurried hand the strings. With woful measures wan Despair— Low, sullen sounds his grief beguiled; But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure 1 Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! Still would her... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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 '. Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the strain prolong;... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...beguiled: — A solemn, strange, and mingled air: — 'Twos sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure 1 Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! Still would her... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
..., A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hupe ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail !— Still would her touch the strain... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...unknown good, and tinge the hazy prospect with hopes and wishes and more charming fears. " But thou, oh Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure...pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!" Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the... | |
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