 | Charles Bucke - 1832 - 328 Seiten
...quell'd •.' BI 266. The original of this is in Addison. A modern poet has a transcendent passage : " 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us." Southey. There are few passages, even in Shakspeare, superior to this. Sir Walter Scott, also, has... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1832 - 334 Seiten
...quell'd*.' BI 266. The original of this is in Addison. 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,... | |
 | 1842 - 566 Seiten
...SPAIN, AND WIFE OF ALRERT, ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA. THE PROTEGEE: A TALE . BY MRS. TR EDMONDS. CHAPTER I. " 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...And pause at times and feel that we are safe ; Then, with an eager and suspended soul, woo terror to delight uc." THE traveller, whose love for the picturesque... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 Seiten
...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...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us ; — but to hear The roaring of the raging elements, To know all human strength, all human skill,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 Seiten
...musty straw ? — alack! alack! 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all. 3 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of...times, and feel that we are safe; Then listen to the pleasing tale again, And, with an eager and attentive ear, Woo sorrow to delight us. 4 Of genius—that... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...bliss Thrill'd every bosom, and the family Of man, for once, partook a common joy. LISTENING TO STORMS. 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of...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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 Seiten
...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...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us ; — but, to hear The roar of raging elements, To know all human skill, all human strength, Avail... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 478 Seiten
...that private happiness cannot hope for security during public dissensions and calamity. AEB CHAPTER I. "Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of...eager and suspended soul Woo terror to delight us. SOUTHEY'S "MADOC." THE Eddystone Light-house has long been celebrated, not only as the most remarkable... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...call'd up sorrows in the eyes, Pierc'd the full heart, and forc'd them still to rise. CRABBK. A STORM. 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 460 Seiten
...security during public dissensions and calamity. AEB Vicarage, Tavittock, Nov. 1, 1830. CHAPTER I. 'Tis pleasant, By the cheerful hearth, to hear Of...that we are safe : Then listen to the perilous tale a<jain, And with an ea<*er and suspended soul Woo terror to delight us. . SOUTHEY'S "MADOC." THE Eddystone... | |
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Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe ; Then listen to the perilous tale again, And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. 
