 | 1840 - 506 pages
...mythology. ' In that fair clime, the lonely Herdsman, stretched On the soft grans through half a summer'! day. With music lulled his indolent repose ; And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When hU own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant slraiu, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - Greek poetry - 1834 - 526 pages
...clime, the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lull'd his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness,...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd, Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth, who touch'da golden lute, And... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 1040 pages
...wonderfully combined in his description, historical accuracy with poetic beauty, and philosophical spirit. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if be, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sound! Which... | |
 | 1840 - 546 pages
...exquisite passage in the " Excursion" of Wordsworth, it will lose none of its charms — WORDSWORTH. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman stretched...soft grass, through half a summer's day, With music lull'd his iudolent repose : And in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced... | |
 | 1840 - 548 pages
...exquisite passage in the " Excursion" of Wordsworth, it will lose none of its charms — WORDSWORTH. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman stretched On the soft grass, through halt' a summer's day, With music lull'd his indolent repose : And in some fit of weariness, if he,... | |
 | John Brown Patterson - 1837 - 496 pages
...neighbourhood of Torryburn, Fifeshire, in a state of comparative seclusion even from books, which, how* " In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass," &c. &c. The Excursion, pp. 179,180. •f- Mr Patterson revised this essay in the course of the following... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...clime, the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass tbrough half a summer's day, With music lull'd a moment's fair regard, What maks the mighty fetch'd, £'en from the blazing chariot of the sun A heardless youth, who touch'da golden lute, And... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...clune, the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass i hrough hall a summer's day, With music lull'd his indolent repose: And, in some fit of weariness,...When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A disiant strain, fur sweeter than the sounds U'tiich his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd, r,ven... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...clime, the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lull'd us Л distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch 'd,... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1841 - 474 pages
...shell' to the 'choral song' of the whole universe breathing in the ear of Faith : or, as he draws — ' the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day,' then I realize the ardor of his admirers. and can call him from my soul — a poet ! Many of his odes... | |
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In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter... 
