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 33edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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