 But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 74edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | England - 1835 - 866 pages
...been a present of Daniel the grandfather to his wife. The three apartments above served equally Tor store-rooms and bed-chambers. William Dove the brother...the maid, or Haggy as she was called, in another." " Happily for Daniel Dove," the father of the Doctor, " he lived," quoth his biographer, "before the... | |
 | England - 1862 - 818 pages
...midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens — then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." * Strange as it may seem, the zoologist finds the sea more fertile in living forms than the land. Homer... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 892 pages
...slumber, to speak with miraculous organ, like tho shell which has only to be lifted, and " pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there" — their power, so silent and sublime, of drawing tears, kindling blushes, awakening laughter, calming... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - English poetry - 1836 - 46 pages
...wherein 'tis hard to find One happy fancy, one affection kind. Its polisht lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. GEBIB. The words in the Excursion markt by italics are certainly not imitated from Gebir; and it is... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett - Church music - 1841 - 40 pages
...midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." To the wondering ear of childhood, those "Sonorous cadences expressed Mysterious union with its native... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. Front GcNr. FROM COUNT JULIAN. O cruelty — to them indeed the least! My children, ye are happy —... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1842 - 300 pages
...mid-way in the wave : Shake one and it awakens ; then apply Its polish 'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." PAGE 157, ACT III., SCENE VII. " Cumbu is my gage, And by the crown of his head I know the times. Grow... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens— then apply Its polish'd lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." These are lines for you, sir! They are mine. What do you think of them 1 .V. I think very well of them... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...so eloquently says: " Shake one and it awakens ; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there — " which were to be taken on the Bemini Islands, between which and the Florida shore we were to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 612 pages
...midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens— then apply Its polish'd lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." These are lines for you, sir! They are mine. What do you think of them 1 JV. I think very well of them... | |
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