| 1826 - 820 sidor
...instrument was the scarce auilible dirge ! It seemed to float over the stream, every foam-bell omitting a plaintive note, till the airy anthem came floating...heather. The pattering of little feet was heard, as it living creatures were arranging themselves in order, and then there was nothing but a more ordered... | |
| 1826 - 840 sidor
...Meek loveliness is round thee spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of foreign charms decay'd, And pastoral melancholy. And why hast thou, wild singing...arranging themselves in order, and then there was nothing but a more ordered hymn. The harmony was like the melting of musical dew-drops, and sung, without... | |
| 1826 - 820 sidor
...hollow rushes that whisper to the night-winds ; and more piteous than aught that trills from 1886.] earthly instrument was the scarce audible dirge !...arranging themselves in order, and then there was nothing but a more ordered hymn. The harmony was like the melting of musical dew-drops, and sung, without... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 422 sidor
...First we heard small pipes playing, as if no bigger than hollow rushes that whisper to the night winds; and more piteous than aught that trills from earthly...plaintive note, till the airy anthem came floating over our couch, and then alighted without footsteps among the heather. The pattering of little feet was... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 428 sidor
...than hollow rushes that whisper to the night winds; and more piteous than aught that trills VOL. II. E from earthly instrument was the scarce audible dirge...plaintive note, till the airy anthem came floating over our couch, and then alighted without footsteps among the heather. The pattering of little feet was... | |
| 1843 - 602 sidor
...we heard small pipes playing, as if no bigger than hollow rushes that whisper to the night winds ; and .more piteous than aught that trills from earthly...plaintive note, till the airy anthem came floating over our couch, and then alighted without footsteps among the heather. The pattering of little feet was... | |
| 1843 - 596 sidor
...First we heard small pipes playing, as if no bigger than hollow rushes that whisper to the night winds; and more piteous than aught that trills from earthly...plaintive note, till the airy anthem came floating over our couch, and then alighted without footsteps among the heather. The pattering of little feet was... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 sidor
...we heard small pipes playing, as if no bigger than hollow rushes that whisper to the night winds ; and more piteous than aught that trills from earthly...plaintive note, till the airy anthem came floating over our couch, and then alighted without footsteps among the heather. The pattering of little feet was... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 sidor
...that whisper to the night winds ; and more piteous than aught that trills from earthly instrument wns the scarce audible dirge ! It seemed to float over...plaintive note, till the airy anthem came floating over our couch, and then alighted without footsteps among the heather. The pattering of little feet was... | |
| 1882 - 844 sidor
...pipes playing, as if no bigger than hollow rushes that whisper to the nightwinds ; and more'piteousthan aught that trills from earthly instrument, was the...arranging themselves in order, and then there was nothing but a more ordered hymn. The harmony was like the melting of musical dewdrops ; and sung, without... | |
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