 | English literature - 1817 - 670 pages
...Fountain Springing in в desolate mountain Í Ok Ob what a pure and sacred thing Is Beanty, curtain'd from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light I Unseen by man's disturbing eye, — The flower, tbat bloom» beneath the se« Too deep for sunbeams!... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1817 - 374 pages
...fairy Fountain Springing in a desolate mountain!* Oh what a pure and sacred thing Is Beauty, curtain'd from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light! Unseen by man's disturbing eye,— The flower, that blooms beneath the sea Too deep for sunbeams, doth... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...side, as a badge of sovereignty." — HANWAY. Oh, what a pure and sacred thing Is Beauty, curtain'd from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light ! Unseen by man's disturbing eye, — The flower, that blooms beneath the sea Too deep for sunbeams,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...some dark region of the East."— RICHARDSON. Oh , what a pure and sacred thing Is Beauty, curtain'd from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light ! Unseen by man's disturbing eye, — The flower, that blooms beneath the sea Too deep for sunbeams,... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 520 pages
...The poet's imagination was for once chaste who exclaimed, Oh ! what a pure and holy thing Is Beaut}', curtained from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light ! That heart must be exceedingly corrupt which, when a Turkish father retires to the peaceful fire-side... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1827 - 624 pages
...complimentary messages and presents. * No gentlemen were allowed to be present, or within eye-shot of these moons of the Haram, who are ever enveloped in clouds,...pictures, but above all, the blazing fire in particular, attracted their violent admiration, and so fascinated were they with the English ladies, whom, no doubt,... | |
 | British - 1827 - 576 pages
...the propriety of this Oriental . custom, and to imagine, with a «uortified cariosity. What a pare and sacred thing Is Beauty, curtained from the .<...illumining One only mansion with her light— The Drawing Room, however it is understood, went off capitally : the Indian ladies were delighted with... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...imagine, with a mortified curiosity, What a pure and sacred thing Is Beauty, curtained from the eight Of the gross world: illumining One only mansion with...furniture, the pictures, but above all, the blazing fire, attracted their violent admiration^ and so fascinated were they with. the English ladies, whom, no... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...Fountain Springing in a desolate mountain!1 Oh ! what a pure and sacred thing Is Beauty, curtain'd from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light! Unseen by man's disturbing eye, — The flower, that blooms beneath the eca Too deep for sunbeams,... | |
 | Anthologies - 1834 - 506 pages
...circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment. MOORE. BEAUTY. Oh ! what a pure and sacred thing Is beauty, curtained...world, illumining One only mansion with her light. Unseen by man's disturbing eye — The flower that blooms beneath the sea Too deep for sun-beams, dothnot... | |
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Is beauty, curtain'd from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light ! Unseen by man's disturbing eye, — The flower, that blooms beneath the sea Too deep for sunbeams, doth not lie Hid in more chaste obscurity ! So, Hinda,... 
