Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Poems - Page 95by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| Congregational churches - 1866 - 648 pages
...The thought of selfishness has no place here. Tennyson's fine conception is exquisitely true : — " Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chorda with might ; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, paas'd in music out of sight." The institution... | |
| 1866 - 744 pages
...all hopes of happiness, ambitions and anticipations that centered in himself, were forever forgotten. "Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chorda with mifrht, Smote the chord of Self, which, trembling, passed in music out of sight." Love,... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 830 pages
...another's. "It is of loving, not of being loved," he will add, " that the poet speaks when he says — Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...with might, Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." Our topicist is never averse to tho introduction of an occasional line... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 802 pages
...is of loving, not of being loved," he will add, " that the poet speaks when he says — Love took np the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might, Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." Our topicist is never averse to the introduction of an occasional lino... | |
| 1869 - 620 pages
...contrary fashion, as it is in the nature of Fate to do. ' Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.' They would have lingered on until midnight, but at nearly ten o'clock out came Miss Annesley. She was... | |
| 1867 - 366 pages
...to sacrifice the claims of worldly prudence and self-interest. He took up the Glass of Time, turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. He took up the Harp of Life, struck upon its cords with might, Smote the chord of Self, which, trembling,... | |
| Legh Knight - 1868 - 324 pages
...Miss Effie, you remember that beautiful picture : — ' Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken,...that, trembling, pass•d in music out of sight.' And this powerful apostrophe : — •Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth... | |
| Marian James - 1868 - 410 pages
...voice had the baronet, and it thrilled melodiously through the room on the melodious syllables : " ' Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his...harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might, — P. SOS "0 poet! where didst learn that fallacy?" rang out Miss Blackburn's clear, half - derisive... | |
| Marion Harland - 1868 - 460 pages
...SALE OF DUPLICATES I MOSS-SIDE. BY MAKION HAKLAND, ATTTHOK OF "AlONB," "NEMESIS." "TH« HIDDBH PATH," "Love took up the harp of Life, and smote On all the...might,— Smote the chord of Self, that trembling poM*% In music out of eight." !«&: SHELDON AND COMPANY. iMTntn Mcording to Act of CongreH, in the... | |
| 1868 - 400 pages
...kindled at the cross ; no love so spirit-actuating, none so self-sacrificing, as love to Christ : — " Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." And yet, the imagination of Paul was, on this theme, loftier than the... | |
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