 A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in...  The Scottish Review - Page 2471894Full view - About this book
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1910 - 1174 pages
...England's overflowing Dead. (1822) ON THE DEPARTURE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT FROM ABBOTSFORD FOR NAPLES ll tong. m And thou, most dreaded impe of highest...good knight so cunningly didst rove, That glorious ; 5 While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.... | |
 | Anna Sheldon Camp Sneath - English poetry - 1912 - 302 pages
...was the magic strain. — JAMES HOGG ON THE DEPARTURE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT FROM ABBOTSFORD FOR NAPLES A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of...setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er EUdon's triple height: Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred Power departing from... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...'s shadowy moonshine ! ON THE DEPARTURE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT FROM ABBOTSFORD, FOR NAPLES 183J. 1835 In front of the portal, From a rock where the standard of man sun 's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of Power, assembled there,... | |
 | James Alexander Kerr Thomson - Greece - 1927 - 272 pages
...of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildoris triple height; Spirits of Power, assembled there,...blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again. He says in the Prelude, speaking of his childhood, / was alone, And seemed to be a trouble to the peace... | |
 | 1842 - 330 pages
...we quote only the beautiful sonnet on the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples. A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of...triple height : Spirits of power, assembled there, complam For kindred power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe... | |
 | Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, Lancelot Austin Garrard, H. L. Short - Philosophy - 1921 - 812 pages
...all is the allusion in the sonnet On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples: " A trouble, not of clouds or weeping rain, Nor of the...blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again." Yes : there are Powers, the poet holds, that speak to the souls of men. By the external listener their... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Jenks - Liberalism (Religion) - 1836 - 426 pages
...as finished and exquisite as the ode of Horace to the ship which was to carry Virgil from Italy. " A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of...complain, For kindred power departing from their sight ; VOL. xix. — 3n s. VOL. i. NO. HI. 43 Wordsworth's Yarrow Revisited. [Jan. While Tweed, best pleased... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1884 - 632 pages
...Naples.'" Those lines recall, only to surpass, Horace's ode to the ship that was to bear Virgil to Athens : "A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of...the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs on Eildon's triple height: Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing... | |
 | 1888 - 926 pages
...would cross the stream, I was not a little moved, and expressed my feelings in the sonnet beginning, " A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic li^ht Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height." So far as pastoral beauty and poetic art are... | |
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