 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...Mirth's enlivening strain ; For present pleasure soon is o'er, And all the past is vaiii.' The Hermit. to hear. Not less picturesque arc the following passa mortals the sweets of forgetfulncss prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...Mirth's enlivening strain ; For present pleasure soon is o'er, And all the past is vain.' The Hermit. por mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 Seiten
...syllables, there is one unaccented syllable, throughout the stanza; ie the accent occurs on every other syllable. At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And the mortals the sweets of forgetmlness prove, And when nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 Seiten
...relish those pure, delicious joys which embellish and gladden the life of man. The Hermit. BEATTIE. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove ; When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...He, lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She, safe in the simplicity of hers. Cowper. THE HERMIT.5 AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove ; When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 Seiten
...the accent of the noun (as in the previous example) into that of the verb. THE HERMIT. DR. BEATTIE. AT the cl'ose of the da'y, when the ha'mlet is st'ill, And m'ortals the swee'ts of forge'tfulness prove ; When nou'ght/ but the to'rrent/ is heard on the h'ill,... | |
 | William Smyth - 1845 - 406 Seiten
...moments of melancholy thought, such as poets are exposed to, he wrote the beautiful poem that begins " At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals, &c. 'Twas then by the cave of a mountain reclined, An hermit his nightly complaint thus began... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again. THE HERMIT. — Beattie. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, And naught... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1846 - 256 Seiten
...this to muse alone in summer-tide, or when the sere loaves of autumn are trembling on the bough ! " At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove; When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...impart, Till the freed spirit springs on high In rapture too severe for weak mortality.' THE HEUMIT. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forget fulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought... | |
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At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove... 
