 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1876 - 1140 pages
...the thousand nothings of the hour Their stupefying power ; Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call ! Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From...airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day. Only, but this is rare 1 When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1876 - 440 pages
...full of the comfort of music, which tell us how, wafted at times from the far-off verge of the soul, " As from an infinitely distant land, Come airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day. " These have a subtle likeness to Wordsworth's purer notes, a likeness undefined... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1877 - 172 pages
...the thousand nothings of the hour Their stupefying power; Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call ! Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From...airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day. Only, but this is rare! When a belovfed hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 pages
...volumes. The ninth, tenth, and eleventh lines may be paralleled by these of Mr. Matthew Arnold's :— " From the soul's subterranean depth upborne As from...airs and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day." No. 189. — Page 274. Mr. Bryant is perhaps the most truly national of all American... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 814 pages
...speak, and becoming the best part of it, the ideal images which arise seem too far off, too unreal : From the soul's subterranean depth upborne, As from...airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day. And in this way the very energy of imagination serves to ruin, so to speak, the actual... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...volumes. The ninth, tenth, and eleventh lines may be paralleled by these of Mr. Matthew Arnold's : — " From the soul's subterranean depth upborne As from...airs and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day." No. 189. — Page 274. Mr. Bryant is perhaps the most truly national of all American... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1884 - 170 pages
...the thousand nothings of the hour Their stupefying power ; Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call ! Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From...airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day. Only, but this is rare ! When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 280 pages
...the thousand nothings of the hour Their stupifying power ; Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call ! Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From...airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day. Only — but this is rare — When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with... | |
 | William Kirkus - 1886 - 400 pages
...; Ah, yes ; and they benumb us at our call I Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, Prom the soul's subterranean depth upborne, As from an...airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day.* And if we scarcely know, and only fitfully try to know, our own selves, how much... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1888 - 464 pages
...the comfort of music, which tell us how, wafted at times from the far-off verge of the soul,. " Ai from an infinitely distant land, Come airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day." \ These have a subtle likeness to Wordsworth's purer notes, a likeness undefined... | |
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Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From the soul's subterranean depth upborne As from an infinitely distant land, Come airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day. 
