 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature and be never more, Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Milton's Comus. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, and bend the knotted... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...discharge. What windy joy this day had I conceived. Hopeful of his delivery, which uow proves Abortine as the first-born bloom of spring Nipt with the lagging rear of winter's frost ! Yet ere I give the reins to grief, say first, How died he ? death to life is crown or shame. All... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...us, outcast, exil'd, his new delight, Mankind created, and for him this world. So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear. Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost; Evil be tliou my good ; by thee at least 110 Divided empire with heaven's King 1 hold, By thee, and more than... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1824 - 516 pages
...,'.'.X CHAP. X. THE SENTINEL. Where should this music be ? i' the air, or the earth ? , The Tetnpctt. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul I Tnder the ribs of death. Conius. QUENTIN had hardly reached his little cabin, in order to make some... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...us out-east, exil'd, his new delight, Mankind ereated, and for him this world. So farewell hope, and ; Bvil, be thou my good ; by thee at least Divided empire with Heav'n's King I hold, By thee, and more... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death : but O ! ere long Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honour'd lady, your dear sister.... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Lines 555 — 563. In illustration of Milton's tenderness, we will open almost at a venture. Now morn... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displac'd. I wns all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Lines 555—563. In illustration of Milton's tenderness, we will open almost at a venture. Now morn... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...and full discharge. What windy joy this day had I conceiv'd Hopeful of his delivery, which now proves Abortive as the first-born bloom of spring Nipt with the lagging rear of winter's frost ! Yet ere I give the reins to grief, say first, How dy'd he ; death to life is crown or shame. All... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, 560 And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Deadi : but O ! ere long, Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honour'd lady, your dear... | |
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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death. 
