| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...mingling measure played ; The summer wind that shook the spangled tree, The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee ; — Still slowly passed the melancholy...! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed — till woman smiled ! 35. FREEDOM. — Cowper-. Fair freedom has a thousand charms to show,... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - Squatters - 1847 - 484 pages
...wind that nhook the spangled tree, The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee ; Still slowly pass'd the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not...a wild, And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled !" Whilst the company were assembling, and prior to grace being said, the bund played the fine... | |
| Samuel Sands - 1848 - 452 pages
...regulated system of Husbandry. Aa the English Poet most beatifully says of the Garden of Paradise, "The world was sad! the garden was a wild! And man, the hermit, sigh'd, 'till woman smiled." Where is her power and influence—her taste so successfully exerted, and which universally... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 pages
...to perfection ; we have noticed one or two not referred to, in which this may be easily observed. " Still slowly passed the melancholy day • And still the stranger wist not where to stray." " That relaxation of the languid frame By soft recumbency of outstretched limbs." " Here rills of oily... | |
| Orsamus Turner - Allegany County (N.Y.) - 1849 - 744 pages
...mingling measures play'd; The summer wind that shook the spangled tree, The wispering wave, the murmur of the bee; — Still slowly passed the melancholy...sad; — the garden was a wild; And man, the hermit, sighed — till WOMAN smiled." An old Pioneer, quaintly observed to the author: "they began to go east... | |
| Ariel Ivers Cummings - Conduct of life - 1849 - 200 pages
...measures played ; The summer wind that shook the spangled tree ; The whispering wave, — the murmur of the bee ; — Still slowly passed the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to stay. The world was sad, — the garden was a wild, And man, the hermit, sighed, 'till woman smiled."... | |
| William Beattie - Authors, Scottish - 1849 - 520 pages
...after the witching time of night, th< parlour in South Molton Street was every I favour in his eyes : " Still slowly passed the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to stray ' until the evening again restored to him the so< i Sinclairs. Among the scenes in Paris which \ strongest... | |
| Electronic journals - 1888 - 662 pages
...solitary there : Two paradises are in one, To live in Paradise alone. Andrew МлгтеП, ' The Oarden.' The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And Man, the hermit, sighed till Woman smiled. Campbell, ' Pleasures of Hope.' [See preface to ' Evadne.'] Izaak Walton... | |
| William Beattie - 1850 - 576 pages
...night, the bachelor's parlor in South Molton-street was every day losing favor in his eyes : " StOl slowly passed the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to stray," — until the evening again restored to him the society of the Sinclairs. Among the scenes in Paris... | |
| Electronic journals - 1888 - 558 pages
...solitary there : Two paradises are in one, To live in Paradise alone. Andrew Marrell, ' The Garden.' The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And Man, the hermit, sighed till Woman smiled. Campbell, ' Pleasures of Hope.' [See preface to • Evadne.'] Izaak Walton... | |
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