 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all care:. XL. A certain music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart...easily obtain'd. Behoves no more, But sidelong, to the gently-waving wind, To lay the well-tun'd instrument reclin'd ; From which, with airy flying fingers... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...: Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. XL. A certain music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtain'd. Behooves no more, But sidelong, to the gently-waving wind, To lay the well-tun'd instrument reclin'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. XL. A certain music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtain'd.... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...hung, and breathed such soul dissolving airs, As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. ' XL. A certain music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtain'd.... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving airs As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. A certain musick, never known before, Here lulled the pensive melancholy mind.; Full easily obtained. Behoves... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forget all duties and all cares. A certain musie, l that room was nothing to be seen, But huge great...coffers strong, All barr'd with double bands, that none gently-waving wind, To lay the well-tun'd instrument reclin'd ; From which, with airy flying fingere... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled lull'il the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtain'd. Behoves no more, But sidelong, to the gently-waving... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...It hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs As did, alas! with soft perdition please: Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. A certain musie, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive melancholy mind; Full easily obtain'd. Behoves no... | |
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Lull'd the weak bosom, and induced ease, Aerial music in the warbling wind, At distance rising oft by small degrees, Nearer and nearer came, till o'er the trees It hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas! 
