 | 1842 - 592 pages
...of his poetry is precisely, and without exaggeration, the same which he there ascribes to music. ' For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine...snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly. ' Mine is the charm, whose mystic sway The spirits of past delight obey : Let but the tuneful talisman... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 738 pages
...orthodoxy, and as far from being poetry as from either-: but it is a Bweet preity image !! ! .... ' » . . * For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine...the sea, , «, And melt in the heart as instantly !' p. 318. How convenient for the poet this вате word melt ! Again; 1>1- « With sudden start he... | |
 | 1817 - 506 pages
...I swear by the breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy lover shall sigh at thy feet again. For mine 45 the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring,...notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea. And melt iu the heari as instantly ! And the passionate strain, that deeply going Refines the bnsora it trembles... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 pages
...to Cunningham's lines, that it is almost impossible to conceive Mr. Moore had not seen them : — : For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine...are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as siiow on the sea, And melt iu the heart as instantly! , The Light if the Harem. The preceding instances... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1817 - 680 pages
...by the breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy lover shall sigh at thy feet again. For mine is the lav that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow upon the sea, And melt in tne heart a* instantly ! And the passionate strain tha', deeply going, Refines... | |
 | 1823 - 416 pages
...conveys a perfect idea of its effects upon the mind. " Hers is the lay that lightly floats, And hers are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft...melt in the heart as instantly ! And the passionate strains that, deeply going, Refines the bosom it trembles through, As the musk wind, over the waters... | |
 | 1822 - 962 pages
...what he thinks music ought to be. He has put these words into the mouth of the Spirit of Music :— " For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine...murmuring dying notes That fall as soft as snow on the tea, And melt in the heart as instantly !" It is in this possession, as in Samson's hair, that she... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 222 pages
...drawling key; yet, with all these disadvantages, it gradually awakens the feelings, like those murmuring notes " That fall as soft as snow on the sea And melt in the heart as instantly." His eyes are light in colour; his gestures are not graceful, and his pronunciation is broadly national:... | |
 | 1823 - 478 pages
...what he thinks music ought to be. He has put these words into the mouth of the Spirit of Music : — " For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine...That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the h«art as instantly !" It is in this possession, as in Samson's hair, that she boasts all her strength... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 310 pages
...Music's strain, I swear by the breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy lover shall sigh at thy feet again. For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine...melt in the heart as instantly ! And the passionate strains that, deeply going, Refines the bosom it trembles through, As the musk-wind, over the water... | |
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For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly... 
