 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
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1874 - 436 pages
...ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind His grace, That ever thought the travel long ; Bat eyes and ears and every thought Were with His sweet perfections caught." The solemn services and ceremonial and all the sacramental institutions of the Church have indeed a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...face, Was ever ear did hear that tongue, Was ever mind diil mind his grace That ever thought the travel long? But eyes and ears, and every thought, Were with his sweet perfeetions canght. MATTHEW IIOYDEN. EPITAPH ON SHAKSPEAKE. WHAT needs my Shakspeare for hi< honored... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 454 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...every thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught" POPE. IN 1675 Edward Phillips, the elder of Milton's nephews, published his Theatrum Poetarum. In his... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 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. MATTHEW ROYDEN. EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this marble hearse Lies the subject... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 668 pages
...Waslfever 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." " 0 GOD ! that such a worthy man, In whom so rare deserts did reign ; Desired thus, must leave us then... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 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. MATTHEW ROVDEN. EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UsDF.RXF.ATn this marble hearse Lies the subject... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 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. O God, that such a worthy man, In whom so rare deserts did reign, Desir-ed thus, must leave us than... | |
 | Joel Benton - 1883 - 148 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 ears...thought Were with his sweet perfections caught.'" APPENDIX. THE late Mr. John A. Dorgan, a young writer of rare promise, and the author of a book of... | |
 | Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 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 ears...every thought Were with his sweet perfections caught' " 88 APPENDIX. THE late Mr. John A. Dorgan, a young writer of rare promise, and the author of a book... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 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...breathe ' An ampler ether, a diviner air,' than ours ! But testimony of this kind, conclusive as it is upon the question of Emerson's personal influence,... | |
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