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" Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an /Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like... "
Englische Studien - Page 33
edited by - 1897
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The Poems of Ossian: &c, Volume 2

James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an i /.li.ni harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...has described it gloriously, but given it another different turn, and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter." GBAY'S Workt,...
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The poems of Ossian, &c. containing the poetical works of J ..., Volume 2

Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an .Eoliau harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...has described it gloriously, but given it another different turn, and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter." GBAY'S Workt,...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an JEolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...has described it gloriously, but given it another different turn, and of more horrour. I cannot " light; I have seen a discourse in manuscript about...
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plainlive note, like the swell of an .*Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...has described it gloriously, but given it another different turn, and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter. There is another...
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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volume 1

Archibald Alison - 1812 - 442 pages
...itself, and rising upon the " ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an " flLolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the " world so like the voice of a spirit." Such a sound in itself is inconsiderable, and resembles many others which are very far from being sublime...
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The Halcyon Luminary, and Theological Repository, Volume 1

1812 - 594 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an /i'.ulian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." Such a sound in itself is inconsiderable, and resembles many others which ar© very far from being...
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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volume 1

Archibald Alison - 1812 - 444 pages
...itself, and rising upon the " ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an " ^Eolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the " world so like the voice of a spirit." Such a sound in itself is inconsiderable, and resembles many others which are very far from being sublime;...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 8, Part 1

1812 - 666 pages
...ear in a shrilj , аде! .plaintive notMibe the swell of an JÉolian harp? 1 1 do assure you: tliere is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.'' pp. 199— SQQ. ..'"', • ,•; .ci м ¡I : ..... ' . «, . ' * и ».* "i '.iii1 .i.« • tii..M*h...
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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volume 1

Archibald Alison - 1815 - 884 pages
...itself, and rising upon the " ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the " swell of an .&olian Harp. 1 do assure " you there is nothing in the world so like " the voice of a spirit." Such a sound in itself is inconsiderable, and resembles many others which are very far from being Sublime...
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The British Prose Writers...: Gray's letters

1821 - 394 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an /Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...has described it gloriously, but given it another different turn, and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter. There is another...
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