Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake , Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once... Longman's Handbook of English Literature - Seite 363von R. McWilliam - 1900 - 608 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1817 - 552 Seiten
...tranquil and of a troubled scene. " Clear, placid Leman, thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." And now, " The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wond'rous... | |
| 1817 - 628 Seiten
...nothing finer of the kind. ' Clear, placid Lemun ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. . Tins quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar,... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 Seiten
...GENEVA. Lake Leman, in a Calm. "Clear, placid Tainan ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild worlil I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring. Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
| 1817 - 608 Seiten
...sxquisits passage is his description of Leman. ' Clear, placid Lcman, thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. ' It is the hush of night, aad all between Thy margin and the mountains, dust, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
| 1816 - 696 Seiten
...Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns tne, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 492 Seiten
...passage in the poem. LXXXV. " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved the Ha me Of Heaven again assail'd, if Heaven the while On man and man's research could deign to do... | |
| 1818 - 896 Seiten
...revolutionary politics. " Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, ¡sa thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is ai a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring... | |
| 1818 - 904 Seiten
...the thorny mazes of revolutionary politics. " Clear, placid Lemau! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled watets for a purer This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I spring.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — iu one we shall be slower. LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the...in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, 1o forsuke Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 Seiten
...it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower, LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd... | |
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