 Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...  The Poems of Ossian: &c - Page 423by James Macpherson - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...re-collecting itself, and rising on the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an JEolian harp ? I do assure you, there is nothing in the world, so like the voice of a spirit." In his better moments, in the pauses of the storm, the melody of Burns was like the spirit's voice... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1840 - 448 pages
...recollecting itself and rising upon the ear in a shrill plaintive note, like the swell of an Eolian harp — I do assure you, there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." This idea was not peculiar to the poetical mind of Gray. Almost every one who has stood listening to... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - American literature - 1842 - 426 pages
...re-collecting itself, and rising on the air in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world, so like the voice of a spirit." In his better moments, in the pauses of the storm, the melody of Burns was like the spirit's voice... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian !{. 25. The foundations of his fame are laid deep and imperishable, and the superstructure is already erected.... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp 1 I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...horror. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter. There is another very fine picture in one of them. It describes the breaking of the clouds after the... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 248 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Solian harp 1 I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...horror. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter. There is another very fine picture in one of them. It describes the breaking of the clouds after the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an .$3olian harp 7 I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...has described it gloriously, but given it another diSeront'turn, and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter. There is another... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an JEoli&n harp 1 I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...not deaf to this ; and has described it gloriously, hut given it another differc-nt turn, and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lines: it is in his Winter.... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Faith and reason - 1857 - 406 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of the ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." We have another example in Scripture : " And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1857 - 516 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^olian harp 1 I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." 25. ' ' The foundations of his fame are laid deep and imperishable, and the superstmcture is already... | |
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