 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pages
...Bertha herself, in no measured language ; — for " Wan despair, Low, sullen sounds my grief beguiled, . A solemn, strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild." once more resolved, though now from different motives, to drive them from my mind for ever. In mere... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - England - 1841 - 300 pages
...Bertha herself, in no measured language ;—for " Wan despair, Low, sullen sounds my grief beguiled. A solemn strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild." Despair however, and a sense of affront, by calling out a retributive feeling, will sometimes do great... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...hurried hand the string*. With woful measures, wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief bcguil'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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...hurried hand, the strings. With woful measures, wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild. And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...hurried hand the strings. With woful measures, wan Despair — Low, sullen sounds his grief beguiPd : A solemn, strange, and mingled air : 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But them, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promis'd... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...hurried hand, the strings. With woful measures, wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild. But thou, Oh Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846 - 1845 - 926 pages
...line, and that only three inches above the hips ! CHAPTER VII. " With woful measures, wan despair — Low, sullen sounds his grief beguil'd, A solemn, strange,...mingled air ; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild." COLLINS. THOUSANDACRES had been shot in his chair, by one of the rifles first discharged that night.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...clash he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings. With woful measures, wan Despair — Low, sullen sounds his grief beguil'd : A solemn,...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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...hurried hand the strings. With woful measures, wan Despair — Low, sullen sounds 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 ? Still it whispered promised... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...hurried hand the strings. With woeful4 measures wan DESPAIR — Low, sullen sounds 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 ? Still it whispered promised... | |
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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; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She... 
