 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 472 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon 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." Perhaps you can recall a delight like it, which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1904 - 496 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an JEo\ia.n harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." Perhaps you can recall a delight like it, which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...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 voice of a spirit." Perhaps you can recall a delight like it, which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in... | |
 | Gerald Stanley Lee - Tom, Mount (Mass.) - 1905 - 434 pages
...re-collecting itself, rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive tone, like the swell of an JEolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." We are told that it was while exposed to a violent storm of wind and rain, attended by frequent flashes... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - Poets, Scottish - 1907 - 278 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon 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...deaf to this, and has described it gloriously, but gives it another turn. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter." Then, when the commotion is... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an yKoli.-m harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world...deaf to this, and has described it gloriously, but gives it another different turn and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lines; it is in his 'Winter'... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon 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...deaf to this, and has described it gloriously, but gives it another different turn and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lines; it is in his 'Winter'... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - Poets, Scottish - 1908 - 280 pages
...itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an .35olian harp 1 I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...deaf to this, and has described it gloriously, but gives it another turn. I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter." Then, when the commotion is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 358 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon 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." Perhaps you can recall a delight like it, which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 444 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an JEoYmn harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world...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... | |
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