 Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an JEoYmn harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like...  Essays and Criticisms - Page 236by Thomas Gray - 1911 - 378 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an i /.li.ni harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world...I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter." GBAY'S Workt, iv. 60. The imitation of Milton seems to have startled Gray. The passage in THOMSON'S... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an .Eoliau harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world...I cannot repeat the lines : it is in his Winter." GBAY'S Workt, iv. 60. The imitation of Milton seems to have startled Gray. The passage in THOMSON'S... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an JEolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world...gloriously, but given it another different turn, and of more horrour. I cannot " light; I have seen a discourse in manuscript about them, by one " Mr. Evans, a... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1812 - 442 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the " ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an " flLolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the " world so like the voice of a spirit." Such a sound in itself is inconsiderable, and resembles many others which are very far from being sublime... | |
 | 1812 - 594 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an /i'.ulian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit." Such a sound in itself is inconsiderable, and resembles many others which ar© very far from being... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1812 - 444 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the " ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an " ^Eolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the " world so like the voice of a spirit." Such a sound in itself is inconsiderable, and resembles many others which are very far from being sublime;... | |
 | 1812 - 666 pages
...ear in a shrilj , аде! .plaintive notMibe the swell of an JÉolian harp? 1 1 do assure you: tliere is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.'' pp. 199— SQQ. ..'"', • ,•; .ci м ¡I : ..... ' . «, . ' * и ».* "i '.iii1 .i.« • tii..M*h... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1815 - 884 pages
...itself, and rising upon the " ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the " swell of an .&olian Harp. 1 do assure " you there is nothing in the world so like " the voice of a spirit." Such a sound in itself is inconsiderable, and resembles many others which are very far from being Sublime... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 pages
...in Latin, and though it does not approach the other, there are fine serapi among it.* VOL. IV. 21 x is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit....different turn, and of more horror. I cannot repeat the lip.es : it is in his Winter. There is another very fine picture' in one of them. It describes the... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an yEolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world...had an ear sometimes: he was not deaf to this; and ' ceive, and yet not cunning enough to do it cleverly. In short, ' the whole external evidence would... | |
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