 ... 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...natural floor, And through the leafy cope which bowered it o'er Came gleams of checkered light. S° like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. JAGA-NAUT. JOY in the city of great Jaga-Naut ! Joy in the seven-headed Idol's shrine ! A virgin-bride... | |
 | William H. Ablett - 1880 - 490 pages
...from the cavern's fretted height. Beneath was smooth and fair to sight, Nor weeds, nor briars defam'd the natural floor ; And through the leafy cope which...there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. It may be incidentally remarked here that an instance is recorded of one of these singular trees that... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 296 pages
...the natural floor, And, through the leafy cope 3 which bowered it o'er, Came gleams of chequered 4 light. So like a temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OP A MAD DOG. FROM 'THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.' I. GOOD people all, of every sort,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1880 - 618 pages
...cavern's fretted height: 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. 6. A brook, with easy current, murmured near: Water so cool and clear The peasants drink not from the... | |
 | William Tayler - 1881 - 594 pages
...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 cope which...there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer.' "Referring to the sentiments expressed in these lines, it is curious that Bishop Heber, describing... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 418 pages
...to sight, Nor weeds nor briers deformed the natural floor ; And through the leafy cope which lowered it o'er Came gleams of chequered light. So like a...there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. SOUTHEY. ir-reg-ul-ar-ly straight cbl-umn (-uni) boughs un-moved' (-muvd) low'ered de-fbrmed chdqu-ered... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1883 - 412 pages
...their way, Fixing their bearded fibres round and round With many a ring and wild contortion wound. And through the leafy cope which bowered it o'er,...it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse had been prayer." " Kehama," Canto xiii. The Baobab of Southern Africa, though rarely rising to an... | |
 | James Douglas - 1883 - 590 pages
...without (and he did not undervalue them) religions services. Religious services ! His banyan-tree " So like a temple did it seem that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer ; And of his chamber at Dhuboy might be said— • - This is the gate of God, by it The just shall... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 212 pages
...to sight, Nor weeds nor briers deformed the natural floor ; And through the leafy cope which lowered it o'er Came gleams of chequered light. So like a...there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. SOUTHEY. ir-r&g-ul-ar-ly straighf de-formed cbl-umn (-uni) boui/hs ch&qu-ered (ckek-) un-moved' (-muvd,)... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1884 - 586 pages
...natural floor. And through the leafy cope which bowered it o'er Came gleams of checkered light. So like n temple did it seem, that there A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer. 6. A brook, with easy current, murmured near: Water so cool and clear The peasants drink not from the... | |
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