 | 1866 - 650 pagina’s
...The thought of selfishness has no place here. Tennyson's fine conception is exquisitely true : — " Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chorda with might ; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, paas'd in music out of sight." The institution... | |
 | 1867 - 974 pagina’s
...now. For if it were for Anne's happiness, "Love took up the harp of Life, and emote on all the chorda with might : Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music ont of sight." he was content to give her up. It had been far otherwise in that earlier passion, which... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 832 pagina’s
...another's. "It is of loving, not of being loved," he will add, " that the poet speaks when he says — Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." Our topicist is never averse to tho introduction of an occasional line or two of poetry into his disquisitions... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 802 pagina’s
...is of loving, not of being loved," he will add, " that the poet speaks when he says — Love took np the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with...Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." Our topicist is never averse to the introduction of an occasional lino or two of poetry into his disquisitions... | |
 | Legh Knight - 1868 - 324 pagina’s
...that beautiful picture : — ' Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden...might ; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, pass•d in music out of sight.' And this powerful apostrophe : — •Cursed be the social wants that... | |
 | 1868 - 400 pagina’s
...kindled at the cross ; no love so spirit-actuating, none so self-sacrificing, as love to Christ : — " Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." And yet, the imagination of Paul was, on this theme, loftier than the Laureate's. Such, according to... | |
 | Marian James - 1868 - 410 pagina’s
...on the melodious syllables : " ' Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden...harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might, — P. SOS "0 poet! where didst learn that fallacy?" rang out Miss Blackburn's clear, half - derisive... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1868 - 460 pagina’s
...SALE OF DUPLICATES I MOSS-SIDE. BY MAKION HAKLAND, ATTTHOK OF "AlONB," "NEMESIS." "TH« HIDDBH PATH," "Love took up the harp of Life, and smote On all the...might,— Smote the chord of Self, that trembling poM*% In music out of eight." !«&: SHELDON AND COMPANY. iMTntn Mcording to Act of CongreH, in the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 pagina’s
...glass of Time, and turn d it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. * Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 pagina’s
...no distinction. 2. I send you here a sort of allegory. 3. Our island home is far beyond the sea. 4. Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might. 5. Your If is the only peace-maker: much virtue in If. 6. He is very prodigal of his ohs and ahs. 1.... | |
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Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. 
