| William Cowper - 1859 - 76 sivua
...lost his glare, And stepped at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Tour fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant of your race survives. 340 How airy and how light the graceful arch, Tet awful as the consecrated roof He-echoing pious anthems... | |
| William Cowper - 1860 - 506 sivua
...have lost his glare, And stepped at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a...consecrated roof Re-echoing pious anthems ! while beneath I The checkered earth seems restless as a flood ' Brushed by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot... | |
| J. Leadbetter - 1860 - 152 sivua
...destroyer, Time, deal lightly with thee. It is to this avenue that Cowper refers -when he says — " How airy and how light the graceful arch, Yet awful...roof Re-echoing pious anthems ! while beneath The chequered earth seems restless as a flood Brushed by the wind." Leaving this avenue, we advanced under... | |
| Mary Virginia Terhune - 1860 - 512 sivua
...would have been required to keep them back : ' The checkered earth seems restless as a flood, Brushed by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance — Shadows and sunshine intermingling quick, And darkening and enlight'ning — as the leaves Play... | |
| Marion Harland - 1860 - 514 sivua
...canopy overhead. Before he thought of what he did, he found himself repeating from his favorite poet : " How airy and how light the graceful arch ! Yet awful as the consecrated roof, Reiichoing pious anthems." She looked up nt him with a smile, ns of one who hears his native tongue... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 sivua
...more I mourn Your fate unmerited, | once more rejoice] 340 That yet a remnant of your race survives. I How airy and how light the graceful arch,] Yet awful] as the consecrated roof 325. As— Stands for as if. 831. But that— But may be here regarded 827. Wecps— Equivalent to... | |
| Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 sivua
...his gaze heavenward, he may see in the rainbow of the vaulted firmament, how — Airy and light ia the graceful arch ; Yet, awful as the consecrated roof, Re-echoing pious anthems. Then, netherward let him direct his survey, and view the nave immense, in length and breadth formed^... | |
| William Cowper - 1863 - 540 sivua
...graceful arch, Yet awful as the consecrated roof Re-echoing pious anthems ! while beneath The chequer'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush'd by the wind....the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they danca, Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick, And darkening, and enlightening, as the leaves Play... | |
| William Cowper - 1864 - 622 sivua
...And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Your fate UBmerited, d with never-ceasing sighs. She begs an idle pin of...press'd with hunger oft, or comelier clothes, Though pin chequer'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush'd by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through... | |
| John Milton - 1864 - 108 sivua
...Sk. I., has the following lively description : The chequered earth seema restless as a flood Brushed by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance, Shadow andsunshine intermingling quick, And darkening and enlightening, as the leaves Play wanton, every moment,... | |
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