 Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...  Foundation English: The Expression of Ideas - Page 17by Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 287 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1886 - 458 pages
...attenuations: nick, splick (the quarry man's name for a chip of stone), skin, sk\f skip, skim, skive, sketch. " How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of...over-sprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a krystalline delight ! " This of Poe is comparatively cheap work, but the reader must detect in it the... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1867 - 848 pages
...literature. It is a wonder of verbal felicity : "Hear the pledges with the hells — Silver bells 1 What a world of merriment their melody foretells :...they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night Î While the stars that ovcreprlnkle AU the heavens, eeem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1867 - 400 pages
...degenerated into something almost like nursery rhymes. Here is its first stanza : — Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells I How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 pages
...of the river was but shallow, but thus they got over. Bwiyan. H1 THE BELLS. ' EAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells ! What a world of merriment...heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight. Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home ! • CLX. THE BELLS. H1 "EAB the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment...tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that over sprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time,... | |
 | 1868 - 604 pages
...a rule will lead if followed. Pauses of the same length would thus be required in both passages. " How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of...heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight. " Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...floating on the floor Shall be lifted — NEVERMORE ! THE BEIX8. (EDGAR A. FOR.) Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells — What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tiukle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinklo All the heavens, seem to... | |
 | 1868 - 1048 pages
...and merrier laughter ; — and again, perhaps, of moonlight sleigh-rides, — " Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! " All, as you look out of the window, in quieter mood than you know every busy day, you see the snow... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...nothing real had a part. He died October 7, 1849, in a hospital at Baltimore.] HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells ! What a world of merriment...heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight. Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells... | |
 | E. Wadham - 1869 - 176 pages
...however, though so very irregular, yet preserves the same form through every stanza. Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells ! What a world of merriment...heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells... | |
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