 | 1843 - 582 pages
...they are but sheep, which always herd together." And Tasso thus depicts his love of retirement : " From my very birth) My soul was drunk with love, which...inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild and lonely (lowers And rocks whereby they grew, a paradise, Where I did lay me down within the shade Of waving... | |
 | 1843 - 316 pages
...has been induced to pass it over to the pages of the Pearl.] •'' Of objects all inanimate I ma fc . Idols, and out of wild and lonely flowers, And rocks whereby they grew, a paradise, Where I did sit me down within the shade, Of waving trees and dreamed uncounted hours, Tho' I was chid lor wandering,... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 424 pages
...their lordly stems, the lulling music of their streams, stood to me in lieu of that which was denied Of objects all inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild and lovely flowers, And rocks whereby they grew, a paradise. To me to have been "chid for wandering" would... | |
 | Edinburgh tales, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 458 pages
...their lordly stems, the lulling music of their streams, stood to me in lieu of that which was denied Of objects all inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild and lovely flowers, And rocks wbereby they grew, a paradise. To me to have been "chid for wandering" would... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...vigour to sustain, And look to thee witli undivided breast, And foil the ingenuity of Pain. (4) VI. It is no marvel — from my very birth ' My soul was...I made Idols, and out of wild and lonely flowers, was, however, impregnable to the appeal ; and Tasso, in another ode to the princesses, whose pity he... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...lent me vigour to sustain, ' And look to thee with undivided breast And foil the ingenuity of pain. It is no marvel — from my very birth My soul was...whate'er I saw on earth; Of objects all inanimate I made 1 Idols, and out of wild and lonely flowers. And rocks, whereby they grew, a paradise, Where I did... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1846 - 946 pages
...country neighbours to vivify the solitudes of so delightful a spotLike Tasso, - from her very birth. Her soul was drunk with love, which did pervade And mingle with whate'er she saw on earth ; Of objects all inanimate she made Idols, and out of wild and lonely flowers, And... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...him for an intense affection ; and Byron makes him truly describe his own state, when he says — " From my very birth My soul was drunk with love, —...pervade And mingle with whate'er I saw on earth." Yet unfortunately for him, his affections were now directed to one, " there seated where he durst not... | |
 | William Charles McKinnon - 1852 - 342 pages
...CANADIAN LEAGUE. BY WILLIAM CHAELES McKINNON, AUTHOR OF " ST. CASTIXE," A WX3ENI) OF CAPE BRETON, AC. - From my very birth My soul was drunk with love, which did pervade And minsle with whate'er I saw on earth j — • Of objects all inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild... | |
 | William Charles McKinnon - 1852 - 294 pages
...drunk with love, which did perrade And mingle with whate'er I saw on earth,— - From my very birth Of objects all inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild and lonely dowers, Where I did lay me down within the shade Of waving trees, and dreamM uncounted hours, And rocks,... | |
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Of objects all inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild and lonely flowers, And rocks whereby they grew, a paradise, Where I did lay me down within the shade Of waving trees, and dream'd uncounted hours, Though I was chid for wandering... 
