 Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once...  Journal of the Society of Arts - Page 241903Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...Achttophfl. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted bike, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thin» Which warns me, with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer j-piing. Byron. ChMe Harold's 1'ilgrimaije, can. 3. FORSAY, for, ie forth, and say ; to say forth,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...description — • " Clear, placid Loman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ! Once I lov'd Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's voice reprov'd, That... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...contrasted lake, With (he wild world 1 dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with ils silliness, lo forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring....noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, bul Ihy soft murmunnr; Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 pages
...placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing, Which warns me with i',s stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pages
...lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Karth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - 1846 - 360 pages
...says of the lake, — " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing "Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." How forcibly I felt the truth of these lines as I returned through the town of Lausanne, it is impossible... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...shall be slower. LXXXT. Clear, placid Leman 1 thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt In, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pages
...sermons awoke in his soul! , " Clear placid Lemun! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to forsake...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; onee I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1847 - 478 pages
...loved to celebrate. " Clear, placid Leman ! Thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." It was in sight of the place where she now was, that Gibbon and Voltaire subsequently resided and wrote.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 242 pages
...awakened in his soul ! " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing, Which warns me with its stillness to forsake...sail is as a noiseless wing •» To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
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