Oh ! that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment, born and dying With the blest Tone that made me. Sketches from Life - Page 105by Laman Blanchard - 1846Full view - About this book
| Music - 1895 - 702 pages
...echoes— Oh that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment— born and dying With the blest tone that made me.1' The Invocation to the Alpen fay, to this passage: — , , . "Beautiful spirit, with thy hair... | |
| Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 416 pages
...echoes.— Oh that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment, — born and dying With the blest tone, that made me ! Vaillant relates, that the Nimiguas of South Africa play upon an instrument resembling a flute,... | |
| Charles Knight - English fiction - 1823 - 548 pages
...— " Oh that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound ; A living- voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment — born and dying With the blest tone that made me !" — MANFRED. Still less does he look forward to a paradisiacal state, in which the immaterial... | |
| 1826 - 726 pages
...the subjects they discussed, as to have caught the lineaments of their ideal creations. Mi'thought it was a touching sight to see the form of a White...Spenser, Marlow of the " mighty line," — of honest Deckar and melancholy Ford — of Beaumont, Fletcher — Jonson the rare, and Shakspeare the gentle... | |
| Miss Jones - 1832 - 206 pages
...echoes. O that I were . . The viewless spirit of a lonely sound, * A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment — born and dying With the blest tone that made me. — MANFRED. IN the evening, charades were acted, a quadrille was danced, piquet, ecarte, and chess... | |
| Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 662 pages
...this : " O that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment, — born and dying With the blest tone that made me." How far more dignified the man who lives for usefulness, whose gratitude to his Creator-Father... | |
| English literature - 1856 - 412 pages
...and be to me for ever " The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony ; A bodiless enjoyment, born and dying With the blest tone that made thee ! ' SHADOW AND SUNLIGHT. BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS. " Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternate come... | |
| Henry Harbaugh - Future life - 1853 - 410 pages
...prayer — "Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment — born and dying With the blest tone that made me ! " This, however, is not the salvation of the Scriptures. It promises no such phantom state to... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...echoes. — Oh, that I wero The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment — born and dying With the blest tone that made me ! ii DARKNESS. I had a dream, which was not ail a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the... | |
| Thomas Gibbons Hutchings - 1855 - 328 pages
...: — " Oh that I were the viewless spirit of a lovely sound, a living voice, a breathing harmony, a bodiless enjoyment, born and dying with the blest tone that made me." And how many may now pass along unheeded by the very persons who in joy surrounded the cradle... | |
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