 Those who heard him while their natures were yet plastic, and their mental nerves trembled under the slightest breath of divine air, will never cease to feel and say: — '" Was never eye did see that face, Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never...  Good Words - Page 3591885Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long. But eyes, and ears, and every thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught." * * Spenser's Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney. 61 President Kirkland had a singular felicity in addressing... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long. ;But eyes, and ears, and every thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught." * * Spenser's Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney. President Kirkland had a singular felicity in addressing... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 266 pages
...Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long ; But eyes and ears, and every thought Were with his sweet perfections caught." " Daphnaida," an Elegy on the daughter of Henry, Lord Howard, appeared in 1591, in which year also,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...Was never ear did heai that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long ; But eyes and ears, and every thought Were with his sweet perfections caught." "Daphnaida," an Elegy on the daughter of Henry, Lord Howard, appeared in 1591, in which year also,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 272 pages
...Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the trave! long ; But eyes and ears, and every thought Were with his sweet perfections caught." "Daphnaida," an Elegy on the daughter of Henry, Lord Howard, appeared in 1591, in which year also,... | |
 | William Ware - 1850 - 410 pages
...Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long. But eyes, and ears, and every thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught." * President Kirkland had a singular felicity in addressing distinguished men and public functionaries... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1868 - 356 pages
...face, Was ever ear did hear that tongue, Was ever mind did mind his grace That ever thought the travel long ? But eyes and ears, and every thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught. His Arcadia is a book full of wisdom and beauty. None of his writings were printed in his lifetime... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pages
...never eye did see that face, Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travail long; But eyes, and...thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught." POPE. IN 1675 Edward Phillips, the elder of Milton's nephews, published his Theatrum Poetarum. In his... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...Was never ear did hear that tongue. Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long ; But eyes and ears and every thought Were with his sweet perfections caught." The following lines tenderly express his faith in Sidney's immortality : But that immortal spirit,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1874 - 448 pages
...never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travail Jong; But eyes, and ears, and every thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught." POPE. IN 1675 Edward Phillips, the elder of Milton's nephews, published his Tlieatrum Poetarum. In... | |
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