The hand firm clenched and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to spring, and dart Its vengeance, are the language it employs. So the poetic feeling needs no words To give it utterance ; but it swells, and glows, And revels in the... Clio - Page 81by James Gates Percival - 1822Full view - About this book
| James Gates Percival - Americana - 1823 - 414 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide The keen, fixed orbs, that burn and flash below, The hand firm clenched and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to...the language it employs. So the poetic feeling needs no^ords To give it utterance; but it swells, and glows, And revels in the ecstasies of soul, And sits... | |
| James Gates Percival - Americana - 1823 - 418 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide The keen, fixed orbs, that burn and flash below, The hand firm clenched and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to...are the language it employs. So the poetic feeling n*ds no words To srive it ntterance ; but it swells, and glows, And revels in the ecstasies of soul,... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide The keen, fix'd orbs, that burn and flash below, The hand firrh-clench'd and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to spring, and dart So the poetic feeling needs no words Its vengeance, are the language, it employs. To give it utterance;... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide The keen, fix'd orbs, that burn and flash below, The hand firm clench'd and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to...utterance ; but it swells, and glows, And revels in the eestasies of soul, And sits at banquet with celestial forms, The beings of its own creation, fair And... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...feeling needs no words To give it utterance; but it swells, and glows, And revels in the eestasies of soul, And sits at banquet with celestial forms,...creation, fair And lovely, as e'er haunted wood and w»ve, When earth was peopled, in its solitudes, With nymph and naiad — mighty, as the gods, Whose... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide The keen, fix'd orbs, that burn and flash below, The hand firm clench'd and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to...give it utterance ; but it swells, and glows, And revelsin the eestasies of soul. And sits at banquet with celestial forms, The beings of its own creation,... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide The keen fixed orbs that burn and flash below; The hand firm clench'd and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to...spring and dart Its vengeance, are the language it employe. While passions glow, the heart, like heated steel, Takes each impression, and is work'd at... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 398 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide Tii.' ki-on fixed orbs that burn and flnsli below; The hand linn clcnch'd and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to spring and dart It* vengeance, are the Unguage il employs. Wliili pimoiin glow. Ihe heart, like healed steel. Taken... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide The keen, fixed orbs that burn and flash below; The hand firm clinched, and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to spring, and dart Jn vengeance, — are the language it employs. So the poetic feeling needs no words To give it utterance... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...contracted, till its wrinkles hide The keen, fixed orbs that burn and flash below ; The hand firm clinched, and quivering, and the foot Planted in attitude to spring, and dart In vengeance, — are the language it employs. So the poetic feeling needs no words To give it utterance;... | |
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