| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...dulcimer In a vision once I saw : ll wo* on Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Suitring of Mount A bora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, HIM with music loud and long, ' would build that dome in air, That «unny dome ! those caves of ice... | |
| John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...child! * A botanical mistake. The plant which the pott hes describe* is called the ban's tongue. 3 A A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It...delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build tbat dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - 1851 - 294 pages
...keenly sensible to the delights of music and motion, as was Coleridge in his dream, when, as he says, " A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ;...maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora." Queen Balkis could have further tried to slake her soul's thirst with the romances and legends... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 pages
...sentiment of music, so varied with it, and yet leaving on the ear so unbroken and single an effect. Jl damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It...maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. That is but one note of a music ever sweet, yet never cloying. It ceas'd ; yet still the sails... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle or rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ;...maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 't would win me That... | |
| 1852 - 460 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle or rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice I A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ;...maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song. To such a deep delight 't would win me That... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle or rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw; It...maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song. To such a deep delight 't would win me That... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sonny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she pluy'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 712 pages
...damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To...delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 pages
...more peculiar in its beauty than this was his recitation of Kubla Khan. As he repeated the passage — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Abora! his voice seemed to mount and melt into air, as the images grew more... | |
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