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 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wud ecstacy ? " Heard melodies are tweet, hut those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pipes,...ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, tbou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare ; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...more pointed concetto than this address to the Piping Shepherds on a Grecian Urn ? ' Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore,...more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone .•' but it would be irksome to point out all the instances of this kind which are to be found in... | |
 | Art - 1820 - 416 pages
...what dance ? what struggle to escape ? What Pipes and timbrels ? what wild extacy ? II. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...soft pipes, play on ; Not to the sensual ear but more endeared, Pipe to the spirit, ditties of no tone: Fair Youth, beneath the trees thou cans't not leave... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...at once original in the idea, and going home, like an old thought, to the heart — " Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore,...pipes, play on ; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear 'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou can'st not leave... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye suft pipes, play on ; Mot to the sensual ear, but, more eudear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou eanst not leave Thy song, nor ever t\m those trees be bare ; Eold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timhrels ? What wild ecstasy ? Heard melodies are sweet, hut those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on ; Not to the sensual ear, hut, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 554 pages
...rnnd pursuit? What struggle to escape! What pipes and timbrels? What wild eestasy I 2. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear 'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leavs... | |
 | Frederick William Faber - Cathedrals - 1842 - 672 pages
...mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these ? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What...pipes, play on ; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees thou canst not leave... | |
 | Frederick William Faber - Church history - 1842 - 300 pages
...pursuit? What struggle to escape? Wli.it pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy ? • t " Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on ; Not to the sensual car, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees thou... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...mad pursuit? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstacy ? " Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...pipes, play on ; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear d, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, tbou canst not leave... | |
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