 Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I...  The British Critic: A New Review - Pagina 6111816Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pagina’s
...Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ! Once I lov'd Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's voice reprov'd, That... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pagina’s
...contrasted lake, With (he wild world 1 dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with ils silliness, lo forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring....from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, bul Ihy soft murmunnr; Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I wiih stern delights should... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 pagina’s
...placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing, Which warns me with i',s stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pagina’s
...lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Karth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pagina’s
...purer spring. Th» quiet sail is as a noiseless wiiig To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Tom Elliot Гш1 with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 14 LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - 1846 - 364 pagina’s
...Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." How forcibly I felt the truth of these lines as I returned through the town of Lausanne, it is impossible... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pagina’s
..." Clear placid Lemun! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; onee I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 242 pagina’s
...Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing, Which warns me with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters...sail is as a noiseless wing •» To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 pagina’s
...Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell ill, IB a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's... | |
 | 1799 - 230 pagina’s
...as the image of that book, which, contrasted " With the world we dwell in, is a thing, That warms us with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring ! "The exiles formed themselves into a church, and William Whittingham was their pastor. He was born... | |
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