His sight is microscopic and his aim sure. Quick as thought he has seized his victim and is back to his perch. There is no strife, no pursuit, — one fell swoop and the matter is ended. That little sparrow, as you will observe, is less skilled. It is... Lyrics, Love, Freedom, & Manly Independence - Page xviiby Hugh Buchanan Macphail - 1856 - 150 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir Herbert Croft - Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770 - 1780 - 326 pages
...Brook-Areeti, Holborn. Letter * It has been the frequent complaint of poets, that their eyes, «• in a fine frenzy rolling, glancing from heaven to earth* *" from earth to heaven," muft be fometimes fixed on worldly matters ; muft now and then fubmit to fettle an account,... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 310 pages
...as can be well imagined ; and but little in his regard to give the observer an idea of " The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Glancing from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven." There might be evidences indeed of deep and even painful thinking in the lines of his prominent... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 212 pages
...author as can be well imagined; and but little in his regard to give the observer an idea of "The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Glancing from heaven to earth from earth to heaven." There might be evidences indeed of deep and even painful thinking in the lines of his prominent... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - Authors - 1833 - 216 pages
...as can be well imagined ; and but little in his regard to give the observer an idea of "The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Glancing from heaven to earth from earth to heaven." There might be evidences indeed of deep and even painful thinking in the lines of his prominent... | |
| mrs. Henry H B. Paull - 1855 - 70 pages
...and intellectual, his hair dark and flowing, and his whole manner absent and entranced. With " Eyes in a fine frenzy rolling, Glancing from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven," he ever and anon would start from his seat, and inscribe on the walls of his cell " thoughts... | |
| American essays - 1865 - 940 pages
...contemplation and not of watchfulness. But step closer ; observe the curious movement of his head, his " eye in a fine frenzy rolling, glancing from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven." His sight is microscopic and his aim sure. Quick as thought he has seized his victim and is... | |
| John Burroughs - Birds - 1871 - 246 pages
...beware how you come within his range ! Observe his attitude, the curious movement of his head, his "eye in a fine frenzy rolling, glancing from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven." His sight is microscopic and his aim sure. Quick as thought he has seized his victim and is... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...the strings, with the air rather of the hired labourer than of the enthusiast. His eye you never see in a fine frenzy rolling, glancing from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, nor does his facile hand run off in roulades of melody ; he never wags his head, nor stamps... | |
| Young men's Catholic assoc - 1874 - 404 pages
...a fever of excitement which prevents it from seeing them. Carried away by this impulse, The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Glancing from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, is unconscious of the presence of us poor earth-bound mortals, and we, it may be, are the sufferers... | |
| William Mathews - History - 1874 - 376 pages
...the strings, with the air rather of the hired laborer than of the enthusiast. His eye you never see in a fine frenzy rolling, glancing from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, nor does his facile hand run off in roulades of melody ; he never wags his head, nor stamps... | |
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