 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
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...by fits, by starts 'twas wild ! How beautiful beyond imitation is the animated picture of Hope : But T. ! COLLINS was acquainted not only with the learned languages, but with Italian, French, and Spanish.... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...delighted measure1? Still it whispef'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hall ! Still would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all her song: And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...air : — 'twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. [Read the following in the middle key.] 553. 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 ! 554. [Read with high key]... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...beguil'd— A solemn, strange, and mingled air — 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. 5. But thoniO 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 - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...: — 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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild. And bade the lovely ucenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the strain...prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still- through all her song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...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 ! Still it whispered, promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...gazed on the face of the dead. And bitterly thought of the morrow. HIGH AND CHEERFUL. But thou, oh 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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