...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill! .. we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...eager and suspended soul, Woo Terror to delight us; .. but to hear The roaring of the raging elements, To know all human skill, all human strength, Avail...

...seamen's homeward hopes, Vain all their skill! .. we drove before the storm. Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...eager and suspended soul, Woo Terror to delight us;.. but to hear The roaring of the raging elements,.. To know all human skill, all human strength, Avail...

...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill! .. we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe j Then listen to the perilous tale again, And, with an eager and suspended soul, Woo Terror to delight...

...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill! .. we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel (hat we are safe ; Then listen (o the perilous tak- a^ain, And, with an eager and suspended soul, Woo...

...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill! .. we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. . . But to hear The roaring of the raging elements, . . To know all human skill, all human strength,...

...is a passage in Southey's poem of Madoc even superior to the celebrated " Suave marl" of Lucretius. 'TIs pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...eager and suspended soul Woo terror to delight us. Madoc, part iv. p. 43. Raphael is said to have embodied " the lightning" of the mind: and Gray characterizes...

...society; and am often reminded of that highly poetical passage in Southey's ' Madock,' where he says : ' Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests,...feel that we are safe; Then listen to the perilous talc again, And, with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us: but, to hear The roaring...

...Second Edition, FOR KrNGSBURY, PARBURY, & ALLEN, No. 7, LEADENHALL STKEET. 1826. IS]. THE EXILE; " Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests,...an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us.—But to hear The roaring of the raging elements— To know all human skill, all human strength,...

...quell'd*.' The original of this is in Addison. BI 266. A modern poet has a transcendent passage : " "Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight vs." Southey. There are few passages, even in Shakspeare, superior to this. Sir Walter Scott, also,...

...Vain, now, were all the seamen's homeward hopes ! Vain all their skill ! . . We drove before the storm. Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. But to hear The roaring of the raging elements, To know all human skill, all human strength, Avail...