 | Arthur Henry Hallam - 1834 - 412 pages
...full-voiced anthemings the while Swelled from the choir, and lingered down the echoing aisle. 3f I III. I coveted that Abbey's doom ; For if I thought the...Then ceased I from my envying state, And knew that aweless intellect Hath power upon the ways of fate, And works through time and space uncheckt. That... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1835 - 352 pages
...age's paining; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may 'old Beauty share the empire of Decay But looking toward the grassy mound Where calm the...chieftains lie, Who, living, quiet never found, I ttraitway learnt a lesson high : For there an old man sat serene, And well I knew that thoughtful mien... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 396 pages
...paining; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may old Beauty share the empire of Decay ! " But looking toward the grassy mound Where calm the...mien Of him whose early lyre had thrown Over these mouldering walls the magic of its tone. " Then ceased I from my envying state, And knew that aweless... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 396 pages
...paining ; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may old Beauty share the empire of Decay ! " But looking toward the grassy mound Where calm the...mien Of him whose early lyre had thrown Over these mouldering walls the magic of its tone. " Then ceased I from my envying state, And knew that aweless... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 396 pages
...paining; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may old Beauty share the empire of Decay ! " But looking toward the grassy mound Where calm the...serene, And well I knew that thoughtful mien Of him whoso early lyre had thrown Over these mouldering walls the magic of its Tone. " Then ceased I from... | |
 | William Youatt - 1852 - 452 pages
...here quote the beautiful account of Sir Walter Scott and his dogs, as described by Henry Hall am : — For there an old man sat serene, And well I knew that...thoughtful mien Of him whose early lyre had thrown O'er mouldering walls the magic of its tone. It was a comfort, too, to see Those dogs that from him... | |
 | 1860 - 794 pages
...looking toward the grassy monnd Where calm the -Douglas chieftains lie, Who, living, quiet never found, 1 straightway learnt a lesson high: For there an old man sat serene, And well 1 knew that thoughtful mien Of him whose early lyre had thrown Over these mouldering walls the magic... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 390 pages
...paining; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may old Beauty share the empire of Decay ! " But looking toward the grassy mound Where calm the...mien Of him whose early lyre had thrown Over these mouldering walls the magic of its tone. " Then ceased I from my envying state, And knew that aweless... | |
 | Arthur Henry Hallam - 1863 - 398 pages
...paining ; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may old Beauty share the empire of Decay ! rv. But looking toward the grassy mound Where calm the...Then ceased I from my envying state And knew that aweless intellect Hath power upon the ways of fate, And works through time and space uncheckt. That... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1873 - 1014 pages
...age's paining; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may old Beauty share the empire of Decay! " But looking toward the grassy mound Where calm the...found, I straightway learnt a lesson high: For there ail old man gat serene, And well [ knew that thoughtful mien Of him whose early lyre had thrown Over... | |
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I coveted that Abbey's doom ; For if I thought the early flowers Of our affection may not bloom, Like those green hills, through countless hours, Grant me at least a tardy waning, Some pleasure still in age's paining ; Though lines and forms must fade... 
