 | English poetry - 1821 - 259 pages
...of winds drew sounds of deep delight ; Whence, with just cause, The Harp of ^SEolus* it bight. XLI. Ah me ! what hand can touch the string so fine ? Who up the lofty Diapasan roll Such sweet, such sad, such solemn airs divine, Then let them down again into the soul... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822
...god of winds drew sounds of deep delight: Whence, with justcause, the harp of TEolusithight*. XLI. Ah me! what hand can touch the string so fine? Who...Now rising love they fann'd; now pleasing dole They breathed, in tender musings, through the heart; And now a graver sacred strain they stole, As when... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822
...god of winds drew sounds of deep delight : Whence, with justcause, the harpof.ZEolusithight*. XLI. Ah me ! what hand can touch the string so fine? Who...them down again into the soul ? Now rising love they faun'd ; now pleasing dole They breathed, in tender musings, through the heart ; And now a graver sacred... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 80 pages
...what you here untoiling may obtain." The following lines on the JEolian Harp, are truly beautiful: " Ah me ! what hand can touch the string so fine ? Who...They breath'd, in tender musings, through the heart; And now a graver sacred strain they stole, As when seraphic hands an hymn impart: Wild-warbling nature... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 480 pages
...winds drew sounds of deep delight. Whence, with just cause, the harp of jEolus it high!.* Ah ine ! what hand can touch the string so fine ' Who up the...airs divine. Then let them down again into the soul? * Hirht, named, called ; and sometimes it is used for is tailed, 39 * 462 THE AMERICAN [/,««>» 202.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 822 pages
...Whence, with just cause, the harp of JEo\as it hight. Ah me ! what hand can touch the string so fíne i ő] I S t Now rising love they fann'd ; now pleasing dole They breath'd, in tender musings, through the heart;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 562 pages
...hand ean toueh the string so fine ? Wbo up the lofty diapason roll Sueh sweet, sueh sad, sueh soleum e takes the death With sullen plunge : at onee he darts along, Deep-struek, ; And now a graver, saered strain they stole, Aа when seraphie hands an hyum impart: \VUd-warbling... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826
...swelling and softening as that rises or falls: " Ah mel what hands can touch the strings so fine 1 Who up the lofty diapason roll Such sweet, such sad, such solemn airs divine, And let them down again into the soul 1 " This saloon of Minerva contains the finest editions, superbly... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 234 pages
...god of winds drew sounds of deep delight, Whence, with just cause, the harp of /Eolus it hight. Ali me! what hand can touch the string so fine? Who up the lofty diapasan roll Such sweet, such sad, such solemn airs divine, Then let them down again into the soul?... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 240 pages
...with just cause, the harp of jEolusf it night XLI. Ah me ! what hand can touch the string so fine 1 Who up the lofty diapason roll Such sweet, such sad,...They breath'd, in tender musings, through the heart: And now a graver sacred strain they stole, As when seraphic hands an hymn impart ; Wide warbling Nature,... | |
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Ah me ! what hand can touch the string so fine ? Who up the lofty diapason roll Such sweet, such sad, such solemn airs divine, Then let them down again into the soul... 
