 The loveliest race of all of heavenly birth, Hovering with gentle motion o'er the earth, Amid the moonlight air, In sportive flight was floating round and round* Unknowing where his joyous way was tending.  The curse of Kehama - Stran 51avtor: Robert Southey - 1811Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1816 - 538 strani
...Kehama, as the origin of the Glendoveers:— The loveliest, race of all of heavenly birth, Havering with, gentle motion o'er the earth, Amid the moonlight air, In sportive flight still floating round and round. I have now finished what I proposed to write on the History and Progress... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1827 - 568 strani
...living in earth or air ; from whom Southey's description of the Glendoveers is avowedly borrowed : — " The loveliest race of all of heavenly birth, Hovering...earth, Amid the moonlight air, In sportive flight still floating round and round." The story is told with peculiar simplicity of manner, and in graceful... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 806 strani
...will now restore her, What God will be her friend? Blight and so beautiful was th;tt fair night, ft might have calm'd the gay amid their mirth. And given the -wretched a delight in tears. One of the Glendoveers,1? The loveliest race of all of heavenly birth, Hovering with gentle motion o'er the earth,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 strani
...delight inspired by such a vision. " Bright and so beautiful was that fair night, It might have calmed the gay amid their mirth. And given the wretched a delight in tears. One of the Glondovcers, The loveliest race of all of heavenly birth, Hovering with gentle motion o'er the earth,... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 326 strani
...carried aslope towards the park. " Still and so beautiful was that fair night, It might have calmed the gay amid their mirth, And given the wretched a delight in tears." But Lady Marchmont's feelings were not in unison with the scene ; she was excited and restless, needed... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 636 strani
...o'er her, The poison-dews descend. What Power will now restore her ? What God will be her friend ? 2. Bright and so beautiful was that fair night, It might...birth, Hovering with gentle motion o'er the earth, In sportive flight was floating round and round, Unknowing where his joyous way was tending. He saw... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1842 - 462 strani
...beautiful offsprings of imagination, and have been acknowledged in the Curse of Kehama, as the origin of the Glendoveers : — The loveliest race of all...earth, Amid the moonlight air, In sportive flight still floating round and round. I have now finished what I proposed to write on the History and Progress... | |
 | 1842 - 418 strani
...passed, brushing the dew from the drooping roses as they went. The night was singularly lovely : " Such and so beautiful was that fair night, It might have...their mirth, And given the wretched a delight in tears ;" but it had no soothing influence over human anger. Not an eye rested on the moon, whose sad, spiritual... | |
 | 1851 - 496 strani
...elevation of feeling induced by the scene. Coleridge has well portrayed its effect on the heart : " Bright and so beautiful was that fair night, It might have calm'd the gayamidst their mirth, And given the wretched a delight in tears." And then, too, the stars which como... | |
 | Anna Maria Hopton - 1858 - 352 strani
..." and I do not feel grave, at least not sad. But is it not such a night as Southey describes ?— ' Bright and so beautiful was that fair night, It might have calm'd the gay amid their mirth;'"— and she raised her eyes again to the starry heavens. Gerard could not withdraw his from their fixed gaze.... | |
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