| English literature - 1815 - 1008 pages
...praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend H»r columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme lew solemn teils That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, rrom the high vault an answer draws, In varied tune prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 460 pages
...well attest their dismal doom. X. Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark...From the high vault an answer draws. In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 468 pages
...the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark...awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, 3 In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in... | |
| 1815 - 612 pages
...eastward lay, 4 And Ulva dark and Colonsay, ' And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Stalhi round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, .i That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain . • To... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 498 pages
...shy seal had quiet home, And welter'd in that wond'rous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'tt By skill of earthly architect* Nature herself, it...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and: high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
| English literature - 1815 - 698 pages
...dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seeni'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise! Not for...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 466 pages
...earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for^a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend...awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, 3 In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 pages
...columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, A*d still between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
| English literature - 1815 - 606 pages
...; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between eaph awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tolls That niijhty surge that ebbs and swells. And still, Ixjlwern each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied trine prolon^'d and high, That mocks the organ s melody. Nor doth its entrain o front in vain To old... | |
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