Plays o'er the higher keys, and bears aloft The peal of bursting thunder, and then calls By mellow touches, from the softer tubes, Voices of melting tenderness, that blend With pure and gentle musings, till the soul Commingling with the melody is borne,... Clio - Page 79by James Gates Percival - 1822Full view - About this book
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1823 - 470 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high For aught, but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man, in one eternal...with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolv'd in ecstacy, to heaven. 'Tis not the chime and flow of words, that move In measur'd file, and metrical... | |
| James Gates Percival - Americana - 1823 - 418 pages
...pointed arches, and retiring aisles Of some old, lonely minster, where the hand, Skilful, and moved, with passionate love of art. Plays o'er the higher...soul, Commingling with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolved in ecstasy, to Heaven. 'T is not the chime and flow of words, that movr In measured file,... | |
| Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...aisles Of some old, lonely minster, where the hand Skilful, and moved, with passionate love of art, B Plays o'er the higher keys, and bears aloft The peal...till the soul, Commingling with the melody, is borne, Itapt, and dissolved in ecstasy, to Heaven. Tis not the chime and flow of words, that move In measured... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...love of art, The peal of bursting thunder, and then calls, Plays o'er the higher keys; and bears aloft By mellow touches, from the softer tubes, Voices of...with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolv'd in ecstacy, to heaven, 'Tis not the chime and flow of words, that move In measur'd file, and metrical... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...pointed arches, and retiring aisles Of some old, lonely minster, where the hand Skilful, and moved with passionate love of art, Plays o'er the higher...soul, Commingling with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolved in ecstasy, to Heaven. 'Tis not the chime and flow of words, that move In measured file,... | |
| English fiction - 1834 - 672 pages
...pointed arches, and retiring aisles Of some old, lonely minster, where the hand. Skilful, and moved, with passionate love of art, Plays o'er the higher...soul, Commingling with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolved in ecstasy, to Heaven. "T is not the chime and flow of words, that move In measured file,... | |
| Mrs. O'Neill - Great Britain - 1835 - 214 pages
...pointed arches, and retiring aisles Of some old, lonely minster, where the hand Skilful, and moved, with passionate love of art, Plays o'er the higher...soul, Commingling with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolved in ecstasy, to Heaven. 'T is not the chime and flow of words, that move In measured file,... | |
| Mrs. O'Neill - Great Britain - 1835 - 502 pages
...pointed arches, and retiring aisles Of some old, lonely minster, where the hand Skilful, and moved, with passionate love of art, Plays o'er the higher...bears aloft The peal of bursting thunder, and then calla By mellow touches, from the softer tubes, Voices of melting tenderness, that blend With pure... | |
| American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...aisles Of some old, lonely minster, where the hand Hkili'ul, and moved, with passionate love of ait, Plays o'er the higher keys, and bears aloft The peal...soul, Commingling with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolved in ecstasy, to Heaven. T iť not the chime and flow of words, that move In measured file,... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...with passionate love of art, Plnys o'er the higher kg^s, and bears aloft The peal of bursting tnunder, and then calls By mellow touches, from the softer...soul, Commingling with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolved in ecstasy, to Heaven. 'Tis not the chime and flow of words, that move In measured file,... | |
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