 Was this then the fate of that high-gifted man, " The pride of the palace, the bower and the hall, " The orator, — dramatist, — minstrel, — who ran " Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3601870Full view - About this book
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1883 - 454 pages
...Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall : The Orator, Dramatist, Minstrel, who ran Through each mode of the Lyre, and was master of all — Whose mind was an essence compounded, with art, From the finest and best of all other men's powers... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1883 - 648 pages
...must know the outer man, the wife the inner—the height and depth of the heart, mind, and soul I "... who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all." His only living child, Edward Robert Lytton, second Lord Lytton, was favorably known in literature... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. Loves of the Angels. The Third Anyel's Story. Who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all. On the Death of Sheridan. Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 708 pages
...DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN — The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator, dramatist, minstrel who ran Through each mode of the lyre and was master of all — was a very great man in those days in many ways ; but what made him just now of especial importance... | |
 | James Payn - 1885 - 324 pages
...DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. EICHAED BRINSLEY SHERIDAN — The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator, dramatist, minstrel who ran Through each mode of the lyre and was master of all — •was a very great man in those days in many ways ; but what made him just now of especial importance... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pages
...will rise that to him much more aptly than to Sheridan, might Moore have applied his eulogy, that he ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all. Yet, with his various talents, he appeared to many simply as a medium through whose lips a familiar... | |
 | Charles MacCarthy Collins - 1885 - 350 pages
...in Suckling's play of 'The Goblins.' But all he touched he adorned in a manner solely his owa ' He ran through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all.' A just and delicate estimate of his genius will be found in Hazlitt ; his songs speak for themselves.... | |
 | 1885 - 922 pages
...will rise that to him, much more aptly than to Sheridan, might Moore have applied his eulogy, that he ran " Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all." Yet, with his various talents, he appeared to many simply as a medium through whose lips a familiar... | |
 | Charles MacCarthy Collins - 1885 - 352 pages
...in Suckling's play of 'The Goblins.' But all he touched he adorned in a manner solely his own. ' He ran through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all.' A just and delicate estimate of his genius will be found in Hazlitt ; his songs speak for themselves.... | |
 | Joseph Grego - 1886 - 524 pages
...finest funeral oration, the monody on Garrick. " The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator, dramatist, minstrel who ran Through each mode of the lyre and was master of all." £ 23 15 8 10 >. 6 12 8 0 d. 6 0 0 0 — 57 6 6 40 25 10 5 2 4 0 0 1 5 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sfi 11 rt ...... | |
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