No sounds of worldly toil ascending there Mar the full burst of prayer ; Lone Nature feels that she may freely breathe, And round us and beneath Are heard her sacred tones : the fitful sweep Of winds across the steep, Through wither'd bents — romantic... Christabel Hope; or, The beginnings of life - Seite 87von Anne Mercier - 1869Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Frederick William Robertson - 1865 - 394 Seiten
...haunt, Eternal Voice? ' When he came to those lines, — No sounds of worldly toil ascending there, ilar the full burst of prayer ; Lone Nature feels that...romantic note and clear, Meet for a hermit's ear, — his voice seemed to take the tone of the wind, and I cannot describe how well the landscape explained... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - 1865 - 380 Seiten
...of prayer ; Lone Nature feels that she may freely breathe ; And ronnd us and beneath APPENDIX n. 307 Are heard her sacred tones, the fitful sweep Of winds...romantic note and clear, Meet for a hermit's ear," — his voice seemed to take the tone of the wind, and I cannot describe how well the landscape explained... | |
| 1866 - 638 Seiten
...choice ? Where, undisturbed by sin and care, the soul Owns thine entire control ? Tis on the mountain summit dark and high, When storms are hurrying by...romantic note and clear, Meet for a hermit's ear," &c., &c. " wearied swains in parched bower," "earth tinctured red with blood," which are out of taste... | |
| John Keble - 1866 - 254 Seiten
...are hurrying by : 'Tis 'mid the strong foundations of the earth, Where torrents have their birth. Xo sounds of worldly toil ascending there, Mar the full...the fitful sweep Of winds across the steep, Through wither'd bents — romantic note and clear, Meet for a hermit's ear, — The dashing waters when the... | |
| 1866 - 848 Seiten
...Mar the full burst of prayer ; Lone Nature feels that she may freely breathe, And round us and benea$ Are heard her sacred tones ; the fitful sweep Of winds...romantic note and clear, Meet for a hermit's ear," &c., &c. _ TV. Lastly, the language of the " Christian Year" is entirely in unison with the general... | |
| Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 Seiten
...torrents have their birth. Owns Thine entire control ?— 'Tis on the mountain's summit, dark and high, No sounds of worldly toil ascending there, Mar the...the fitful sweep Of winds across the steep, Through wither" d bents—romantic note and clear, Meet for a hermit's ear,— The wheeling kite's wild solitary... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1870 - 682 Seiten
...since that time recalled to him the day when " over the grave " he " met his Lord face to face :" — " The fitful sweep Of winds across the steep Through withered bents — romantic note and clear, Jlect for a hermit's ear," came to him on the Malvern Hills, when, " sitting under the shelter of one... | |
| Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1869 - 286 Seiten
...my heart could but rise to Him Who hath made them all; and often have I murmured to myself : — " No sounds of worldly toil ascending there, Mar the...the fitful sweep Of winds across the steep, Through wither'd bents, romantic note and clear, Meet for an hermit's ear. The wheeling kite's wild solitary... | |
| 1869 - 584 Seiten
...now approaching to completion. Sir John Coleridge notices one of these instances, tracing up — ' The fitful sweep Of winds across the steep, Through...— romantic note and clear, Meet for a hermit's ear ' — loan evening which Keble describes at Malvern, July 7, 1822, where he says, 'What a delightful... | |
| 1869 - 596 Seiten
...now approaching to completion. Sir John Coleridge notices one of these instances, tracing up — ' The fitful sweep Of winds across the steep, Through...withered bents — romantic note and clear, Meet for a_hermit's ear ' — to an evening which Keble describes at Malvern, July 7, 1822, where he says, 'What... | |
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