 That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low...  Evangeline: a Tale of Acadia - Page 62by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 95 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 pages
...waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones, and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches." In comparison with this, how tame the following rendering :n the common English rhymed pentameter :... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 pages
...listen. Plaintive at first were the tones, and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follower guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. LONGFELLOW. Over his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully and far away, First lets his fingers... | |
 | William Christopher Sayrs - 1903 - 384 pages
...the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied...lamentation; Till, having gathered them all, he flung thern abroad in derision, 880 As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down... | |
 | 1903 - 108 pages
...waves, seemed sllent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad : then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied...notes were then heard. in sorrowful, low lamentation; Tlll, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, As when, after a storm, a gust of... | |
 | 1904 - 496 pages
...waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied...gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, sso As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D. - 1905 - 778 pages
...sad: then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. 138 139 Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation;...crystal shower on the branches. With such a prelude us this, and hearts that throbbed with emotion, Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 738 pages
...sad: then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. 138 139 Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation;...wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling ram in a crystal shower on the branches. With such a prelude as this, and hearts that throbbed with... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1905 - 480 pages
...waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied...gathered them all* he flung them abroad in derision, tea As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a... | |
 | John Marshall, Orlando John Stevenson - 1904 - 296 pages
...waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied...gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, 215 As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the treetops Shakes down the rattling rain in a... | |
 | Sir Samuel Garth, Wilhelm Josef Leicht - 1905 - 610 pages
...waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad : then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied...notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; 873 neighboring ] neighbouring A. 877 Semikolon hinter sad A. 879 Single notes were then ] Then single... | |
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