 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...oar, or rapid twinkle Of the far lights of bkimming gondolas, And the responsive voices of the choir ' Of boatmen answering back with verse for verse ; Some...sights and sounds which here pervade The ocean-born and earth-commauding city — How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm ! I thank thee, Night ! tor thon... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...oar, or rapid twinkle Of the far lights of skimming gondolas, And the responsive voices of the choir Of boatmen answering back with verse for verse; Some dusky shadow chequering theRialto; Some glimmering palace roof, or tapering spire, Are all the sights and sounds which here... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1830 - 436 pages
...oar, or rapid twinkle Of the far lights of skimming gondolas, And the responsive voices of the choir Of boatmen answering back with verse for verse; Some...which here pervade The ocean-born and earth-commanding cityHow sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, Night! for thou hast chased away Those... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...oar, or rapid twinkle Of the far lights of skimming gondolas, And the responsive voices of the choir Of boatmen answering back with verse for verse; Some...dusky shadow chequering the Rialto; Some glimmering palace-roof, or tapering spire, Are all the sights and sounds which here pervade The ocean-born" and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...responsive voices of the choir Of boatmen answering back with verse for verse ; Some dusky shadow checkering the Rialto ; Some glimmering palace roof, or tapering...here pervade The ocean-born and earth-commanding city is — How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm ! I thank thee, Night ! for thou hast chased away... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...oar, or rapid twinkle Of the far lights of skimming gondolas, And the responsive voices of the choir Of boatmen, answering back with verse for verse ;...pervade The ocean-born and earth-commanding city." — p. 98 — 101. We can now afford but one other extract; — and we take it from the grand and prophetic... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 pages
...voices of the choir Of boatmen, answering back, with verse for verse ; — Some dusky shadow, checkering the Rialto ; — Some glimmering palace roof, or tapering...and earth-commanding city. How sweet and soothing is the hour of calm ! I thank thee, Night ! for thou hast chased away Those horrid bodements, which, amidst... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...far lights of skimming gondolas, And the responsive voices of the choir Of boatmen, answering hack with verse for verse ; Some dusky shadow chequering...pervade The ocean-born and earth-commanding city." — p. 98 — 101. We can now afford but one other extract ; — and we take it from the grand and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...responsive voices of the choir Of boatmen answering back with verse for verse; Some dusky shadow checkering the Rialto ; Some glimmering palace roof, or tapering...which here pervade The ocean-born and earth-commanding cityHow sweet and soothing is this hour of calm ! I thank thee. Night ! for thou hast chased away Those... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...with verse for verse — • Some dusky shadow, checkering the Rialto — Some glimmering palace-roof, or tapering spire — Are all the sights and sounds...and earth-commanding city. How sweet and soothing is the hour of calm ! I thank thee, Night ! for thou hast chased away Those horrid hodements, which, amidst... | |
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The act of opening the forbidden lattice, To let in love through music, makes his heart Thrill like his lyre-strings at the sight; the dash Phosphoric of the oar, or rapid twinkle Of the far lights of skimming gondolas, And the responsive voices of the... 
