 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...hurried hand the strings. With woful measures wan Despair— Low, sullen sounds his grief beguiled; But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure 1 Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! Still would her... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled: — A solemn, strange, and mingled air: — 'Twos sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope...with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure 1 Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! Still would her... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pages
...the strings. With woeful measures wan Despair — .Low sullen sounds his grief beguil'd , A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hupe ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...hurried hand the strings. With woeful measures wan Despair — Low solemn sounds his grief beguiled, A sullen, strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thnu, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...unknown good, and tinge the hazy prospect with hopes and wishes and more charming fears. " But thou, oh Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!" Whatever is placed beyond the reach... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...unknown good, and tinge the hazy prospect with hopes and wishes and more charming fears. " But thou, oh Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail !" Whatever is placed beyond the reach... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...the strings. With woeful measures wan Despair — Low sullen sounds, his grief beguil'd, A soleum, our the deeeit. If an enormous salmon ehanee to spy...greedily sueks in th' unfaithful food ; Then downward pl seenes at distanee hail Г Still would her toueh the strain prolong, And from the roeks, the woods,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 454 pages
...prospective pleasure, amidst the echo of surrounding and responsive rocks, and woods, and valleys. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the strain prolong,... | |
 | 1826 - 546 pages
...Mozart, for Beethoven is seldom or ever tender, his melancholy is of higher cast — •• A solemn, strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild ;" And in his movements of a lighter character the same wiidncss is to be found iu a less degree. There... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...of Despair : " With woful measures wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguil'd, A solemn, strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild." The picture of Hope that follows this, is beautiful almost beyond imitation. By the united powers of... | |
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twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail... 
