 ... times, with sway Of gentle motion swung; Others of younger growth, unmoved, were hung Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height ; Beneath was smooth and fair to sight, Nor weeds nor briars deform'd the natural floor, And through the leafy...  The Intellectual Observer - Page 1141867Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1811 - 368 pages
...deform'd the natural floor, And through the leafy cope which bower"d it o'er Came gleams of chequer'd light ; So like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer." NOTE 5. PAGE Q. Rose too — unconscious instrument Of crime and woe, to mortals sent ! That cane,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1811 - 236 pages
...deform'd the natural floor And through the leafy cope which bower'd it o'er Came gleams of checquered light. So like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. A brook, with easy current, murmured near ; Water so cool and clear The peasants drink not from the... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...deformed the natural floor; And through the leafy cope which bowered it o'er Came gleams of checkered light. So like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. Fed by perpetual springs, a small lagoon, Pellucid, deep, and still, in silence joined, And swelled... | |
 | 1829 - 446 pages
...deform'd the natural floor ; And through the leafy cope which bower'd it o'er Came gleams of checquer'd light. So like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer*." * Curse of Kehama. THE BANIAN. THE VINE — Vilis vinifera, Of all the berries, the grape has in every... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 806 pages
...the natural floor, And through the leafy cope which bower'd it o'er Came gleams of checquer'd liyht. So like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. A brook, with easy current, murmur'd near; Water so cool and clear The peasants drink not from the... | |
 | 1830 - 438 pages
...deform'd the natural floor; And through the leafy cope which bowered it o'er Came gleams of chequer' d light. So like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer*." * Curse of Kchama. 251 THK VINE — Vitis vinifera. Of all the berries, the grape has in ever}' age... | |
 | 1830 - 440 pages
...deform' d the natural Boor ; And through the leafy cope which bowered it o'er Came gleams of chequer' d light. So like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart s first impulse would be prayer*." * Curse of Kehama, 251 THE VINE — Vitis vinifera. Of all... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pages
...in his " Curse of Kehama," and conclada it thus : " Nor weeds nor briers deformed the natural floo And through the leafy cope which bowered it o'er Came...there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer." HOME. How many and how fond are the recollections whki this one word is often wont to awaken. True... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...Nor weeds, nor briars deformed the natural floor ; And through the leafy cope which bowercd it all Came gleams of chequered light. So like a temple did...there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer." The same tribes, which are the slender and hum>le plants of northern regions, become lofty trees within... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 pages
...deform'd the natural floor, And through the leafy cope which bowcr'd it o'er Came gleams of checkered light. .So like a temple did it seem that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. " A brook, with easy current, murmured near ; Water so cool and clear The peasants drink not from the... | |
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