 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...It hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving airs As did, alas! with soft perdition please: Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. 40 A certain music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive, melancholy mind ; Full easily obtain'd.... | |
 | Music - 1883 - 142 pages
...His numbers raised a shade from Hell, Hers lift the soul to Heaven. Pore. THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. CERTAIN Music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained : behoves no more, But side-long to the gently- waving wind, To lay the well-tuned instrument... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1889 - 476 pages
...year of the poet's death. The following is the stanza of the poem referred to by De Quincey : — " A certain music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive, melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained. Behoves no more But sidelong to the gently-waving wind To lay the well-tuned instrument reclined,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Allegories - 1893 - 332 pages
...hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart...lull'd the pensive, melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained. Behooves no more, But sidelong, to the gently waving wind, To lay the well-tuned instrument... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 470 pages
...year of the poet's death. The following is the stanza of the poem referred to by De Quincey : — " A certain music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive, melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained. Behoves no more But sidelong to the gently-waving wind To lay the well-tuned instrument reclined,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 472 pages
...year of the poet's death. The following is the stanza of the poem referred to by De Quincey :— " A certain music, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive, melancholy mind ; Pull easily obtained. Behoves no more But sidelong to the gently-waving wind To lay the well-tuned... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 684 pages
...It hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas! with soft perdition please: Entangled deep in its enchanting snares. The listening heart...all cares. A certain music, never known before, Here lulled the pensive, melancholy mind; Full easily obtained. Behooves no more, But sidelong, to the gently... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 646 pages
...hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart...all cares. A certain music, never known before, Here lulled the pensive, melancholy mind; Full easily obtained. Behooves no more, But sidelong, to the gently... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 580 pages
...It hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving airs As did, alas ! with soft perdition please. Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. Near the pavilions where we slept, still ran Soft, tinkling streams, and dashing waters fell ; And... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...hung and breathed such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas ; with soft perdition please ; Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and cares. Till GfESTS. (Tlic portraits given are those of Quln, the actor. Thorncon himself, and hU friend... | |
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Lull'd the weak bosom, and induced ease, Aerial music in the warbling wind, At distance rising oft by small degrees, Nearer and nearer came, till o'er the trees It hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas! 
