 The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage,...  Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste - Page 89by Archibald Alison - 1812 - 434 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...thou damm'st it up, the more it burn»: The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But when his...course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with th' enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage: And so by... | |
 | Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1847 - 722 pages
...The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; Hut when his fair course is not hindered. He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 430 pages
...one style almost precludes pre-eminence on the other. The essayist is like the conversationalist, and when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with enamelled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Engelse drama - 1921 - 162 pages
...it up, the more it burns: The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage: But when his fair course is not hindered He makes sweet music with th' enamelled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage; And so by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1921 - 874 pages
...more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, 8I He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - Dramatists, English - 1922 - 536 pages
...deep and compelling, like The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage; But when his fair course is not hindered He makes sweet music with the enamelled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage; And so by many... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 512 pages
...more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his...course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamelled stones, etc. Already in Act I, sc. ii, l. 30, we have had the same tag in brief :' — Fire... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...Series, flf'o, x. JR LOWELL. The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamelled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. Ttoo Gentlemen... | |
 | David Graham - Aesthetics - 1925 - 380 pages
...Gentlemen of Verona ' :— " The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamelled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 666 pages
...them damm'st it up, the more it burns ; The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his...course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with th' enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage . . . Then... | |
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