| John Richard Digby Beste - 1841 - 958 pages
...self-conceit, he slowly followed his master into the house of death. CHAPTER IX. OUR HEROINE. Who has not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly rny ? Who doth not feel, until hit aching sight Fajnts into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
| Ann Richter - 1841 - 204 pages
...ear the wild farewell, PART SECOND. V " Soft, as the memory of buried love, Pure, as the prayer that childhood wafts above, Was she— the daughter of that rude old Chief." llyiioN's BKIDB OF ABTDOS. MORNING, through a misty veil, Beam'd on the landscape cold and pale ; Light... | |
| American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...dreams Elysian, And paints the lost on earth revived iu heaven; Soft, as the memory of buried love ; Pure, as the prayer which childhood wafts above ;...doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess The might — the majesty... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...dreams Elysian, And points the lost on Earth revived in Heaven ; Soft, as the memory of buried love ; Pure, as the prayer which Childhood wafts above ;...grief. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay i To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into... | |
| John Close - 1842 - 290 pages
...itself—they sink not into the soul like the music of that lover's voice and lute—as Byron sings :— ' Who hath not proved how feebly words essay, To fix...doth not feel, until his failing Sight, Faints into dimness with its own delight; His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might—the majesty... | |
| 1842 - 796 pages
...pictorial illustration," which Byron so beautifully confesses of his own art 1— " Who hath not felt how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray ?" Yes, the origin of half our interest and all our romance, as connected with the vivid descriptions... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...— the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears — but not of grief. Who had not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark...heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Famts into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess The might —... | |
| James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...Moria pur quando vriol, non e bisogna mutar ni faccia, ni voce, per esser un angelo. Who hath not felt how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's...ray ? Who doth not. feel, until his failing sight Faint into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might —... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...— the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears — but not of grief. Who had not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray 1 **^ Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1844 - 186 pages
...dreams Elysian, And paints the lost on Earth revived in Heaven ; Soft — as the memory of buried love ; Pure — as the prayer which Childhood wafts above...doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek — his sinking heart confess The might — the majesty... | |
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