| Scotland - 1839 - 892 pages
...bodily sight : — " Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fund Mem'ry brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the...boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken, The eyea that shone, Now dimin'd and gone, The cheerful hearts mm broken ! Thus in the stilly night. Ere... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1841 - 448 pages
...gondoliers a Venise. — Rousseau, Dictionnaire de Musique. OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. (SCOTCH AIR.) OFT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise, sweet evening bells ! OFT, IN THE STILLY MIGHT. OFT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has... | |
| J. A. Longworth - Circasia (Quindío, Colombia) - 1840 - 344 pages
...allowing a feeling of remorse to mingle with the sentiments so beautifully expressed by Moore — " Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound...Memory brings the light Of other days around me." The visions of home and of England were blending strangely with the wild and romantic scene in which they... | |
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...atque supercilio gravis imminet angor, Fungeris angelico sola ministerio. HJTD OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT. OFT in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound...dimmed and gone ; The cheerful hearts now broken. Oh oft as I remember all The friends thus linked together, Whom I have seen around me fall Like leaves... | |
| Hawks Le Grice - Sculptors - 1841 - 462 pages
..." ; and others have gradually disappeared from our view, like the last rays of the descending sun : "When I remember all the friends so linked together,...seen around me fall, like leaves in wintry weather; I seem like one who treads alone some banquet hall deWhose lights are fled, whose garlands dead, (serted,... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...the bodily sight:— " Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Mem'ry brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the...words of love then spoken, The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken! Thus in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 pages
...to me, When smoothly go our gondolets O'er the moonlight sea. OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. (SCOTCH Am.) OFT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dinim'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain hath... | |
| English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...! then come to me, When smoothly go our sondoleu O'er the moonlight sea. OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. t sinner's cheek. To mortal eye this light might seem A northern flash or meteor nrourrj me ; The smiles, the tear«, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that... | |
| Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear.— Sir W. Scott. Oft ta the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory...dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.— T. Moon. What kind of verse is the following? Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden... | |
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