 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 807 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... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 448 pages
...certain music, never known before, Here lulled the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained : behoves no more, But sidelong to the gently waving wind, To lay the well-tuued instrument reclined, From which, with airy-flying fingers light, Beyond each mortal touch... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 50 pages
...die. The Muses fair, these peaceful shades among, With skilful fingers sweep the trembling strings. Behoves no more, But sidelong to the gently waving wind, To lay the well-tuned instrument reclined. Had unambitious mortals minded nought • But in loose joy their time... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 429 pages
...die. The Muses fair, these peaceful iliadcs among, With skilful fingers sweep the trembling strings. Behoves no more, But sidelong to the gently waving wind, To lay the well-tuned instrument reclined. Had unambitious mortals minded nought, ]Jut in loose joy their time... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 420 pages
...hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving air«, As did, alas! with soft perdition please: Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart...Here lull'd the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained : behoves no more, But, sidelong, to the gently-waving wind, To lay the well-tuned instrument... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1846
...Ev'n feigning virtue — skilful to unite With evil, good — and strew with pleasure, pain. Entangled deep in its enchanting snares The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. THOMPSON. MY DEAR SYBIL, — I am on a visit to a friend at , and purpose, if agreeable to the inhabitants... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 429 pages
...die. The Muses fair, these peaceful shades among, With skilful fingers sweep the trembling strings. Behoves no more, But sidelong to the gently waving wind, To lay the well-tuned instrument reclined. Had unambitious mortals minded nought, But in loose joy their time... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 537 pages
...It 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 musie, never known before Here lull'd the pensive, melancholy mind; Full easily obtain'd. Behoves no... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 537 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 caree. A certain music, never known before Here lull'd the pensive, melancholy mind; Full easily obtain'd.... | |
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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! 
