 XX. When autumn nights were long and drear, And forest walks were dark and dim, How sweetly on the pilgrim's ear Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn ! Devotion borrows Music's tone, And Music took Devotion's wing, And, like the bird that hails the sun,...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Seite 197von Sir Walter Scott - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 Seiten
...folly, and I trust sincerely that all will do well." CHAPTER XX. When autumn nighU were long and ilrcar, And forest walks were dark and dim, How sweetly on...Music took Devotion's wing ; And, like the bird that bails the sun, They soar to heaven, and soaring sing. The Hermit of Si Clement'i Well. IT was after... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 304 Seiten
...silent," said Gurth, " offend him not by thy folly, and 1 trust sincerely that all will do well." CHAPTER XX. When autumn nights were long and drear, And forest...hails the sun, They soar to heaven, and soaring sing. The Hermit of St. Clement 1 '* Well. Upon hearing the sound of feet approaching, the watch instantly... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 Seiten
...design of the prophetic word. » Devotion borrows Music's tone, And music takes Devotion's willg ; And like the bird that hails the sun, They soar to heaven and soaring sinjf. N3 THE NATURE AND [tect. Let any man try for himself how far the predictions of Scripture, yet... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1827 - 276 Seiten
...said Gurth ; " offend him not by thy f 0 ]]y ? an di trust sincerely that all will do well." CHAPTER XX. When autumn nights were long and drear, And forest...dark and dim, How sweetly on the pilgrim's ear, Was wout to steal the hermit's hymn. Devotion borrows Music's tone, And Music takes Devotion's wing ; Arid,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 Seiten
...stands the ruins of Netley Abbey; partially screened by wood, on the shores of the Southampton Water. When autumn nights were long and drear, And forest...pilgrim's ear Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn. Hermit of St. Clement's Well. The Cistercian Abbey of WHITLAND stood near the spot, which was once... | |
 | 1842 - 300 Seiten
...intellectual prodigality for which he was renowned, has merely prefixed as a motto to one of his chapters : " When autumn nights were long and drear, And forest...pilgrim's ear Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn 1 Devotion borrows music's tone, And music took devotion's wing ; And like the bird that hails the... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...outward ear on strains of sweet and solemn melody. Thus " Devotion borrows music's tone, And music takes devotion's wing; And like the bird that hails the sun, They soar to heaven, and soaring sing." This part of our sacred services, moreover, by frequent repetition becomes strictly liturgical in its... | |
 | John Brazer - 1843 - 308 Seiten
...outward ear on strains of sweet and solemn melody. Thus " Devotion borrows music's tone, And music takes devotion's wing; And like the bird that hails the sun, They soar to heaven, and soaring sing." This part of our sacred services, moreover, by frequent repetition becomes strictly liturgical in its... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 748 Seiten
...silent," said Gurth. " Offend him not by thy folly, and I trust sincere! that all will go well." I When autumn nights were long and drear, And forest walks were dark and dim. How sweetly »in the iiil^im's ear Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn ! Devotion borrow» Music'* tone, And Music... | |
 | John Eadie - 1848 - 178 Seiten
...patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." " Devotion borrows music's tone, And music takes devotion's wing, And like the bird that hails the sun, They soar to heaven, and soaring sing." It is, besides, the glory of this kind of evidence, that it is open to all, and needs neither learning... | |
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