 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 страници
...influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. " Listen ! the mighty being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder, everlastingly." Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores, and gone down to it in ships? They are passed... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 498 страници
...is thus fitly described by one of the poets. 1 ' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free. * * * * The broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea." The " expansive forehead" of the great source of light and heat, sank quietly... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 522 страници
...scene is thus fitly described by one of the poets. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free. * » * * The broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea." The " expansive forehead" of the great source of light and heat, sank quietly... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 страници
...flowers Hang down their heavy heads in grief for her. BESSIE AN EVENING BY THE SEA. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as...thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl ! thnt walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought, Thy nature is not, therefore,... | |
 | 1854 - 500 страници
...remarkable and sublime specimen of the Combinative we have in one of his sonnets : — " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as...sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of Leaven broods o'er the sea. Listen ; the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 страници
...language of which we are comparatively ignorant, and by symbols only a few of which we can decipher. ' The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen !...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.' Science, however, is daily, by little added to little, discovering more and more of the secrets of... | |
 | 1857 - 336 страници
...unheeded. The following may be taken after little more than a moment's selection : — "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free: The holy time is quiet as...child ! dear girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appearest untouched by solemn thougbt, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 страници
...allusion is probably to his brother who was lost by shipwreck in February, 1805. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : * Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 страници
...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven hroods o'er the Sea : Listen ! the mighty heing is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. ' Miscel. Sonnets '] Exercise. " 1 cannot think any time, ing or sleeping, without heing sensihls of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 страници
...years unborn, Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and freo ; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...child ! dear girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear' st untouch'd by solemn thought, Thy nature therefore is not less divine : Thou liest "in Abraham's... | |
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IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration... 
