 | Natham Drake - English literature - 1800 - 510 pages
...Slimora! with thy silent woods?" He retired* in the sound of his song. Carril joined his voice.) The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant...to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard it on Slimora's side. Soft sounds spread along the wood. The silent vallies of night rejoice."* "What... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...voice; it is pleasant as " the gale of the spring that sighs on the hunter's " ear, when he wakens from dreams of joy, and has " heard the music of the...soul. The " ghosts of departed bards heard it from Slimora's " side. Soft sounds spread along the wood; and " the silent valleys of night rejoice." What... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 pages
...hear thy voice. It is pleasant as the gale of spring, that sighs on the hunter's ear ; when he awakens from dreams of joy, and has heard the music of the spirits of the hill I" FINGAL: AN ANCIENT EPIC POEM. IN SIX BOOKS. ARGUMENT TO BOOK VI. Night comes on. Fingal gives a.... | |
 | 1803 - 388 pages
...hear thy voice. It is pleasant as the gale of spring, that sighs on the hunter's ear ; when he awakens from dreams of joy, and has heard the music of the spirits of tin: hill !" FIN GAL: AN ANCIENT EPIC POEM. IN SIX BOOKS. ARGUMENT TO BOOK VI. Night comes on. Fingal... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...Night, A. i. S. 1. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, joy, and has heard the music of the spirits of the hill !" Merchant of Venice, A. iii. S. 2. Such it is, As ar<' those dulcet sounds at break of day, That... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...voice ; it is " pleasant as the gale of the spring that sighs on the hnn " tor's ear when he wakens from dreams of joy, and has " heard the music of the...with the finest poetical painting. " The music of " Cam! was like the memory of joys that are past pleasant " and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 480 pages
...re-assuring her : — " Pleasant as the gale of spring, that sighs on the hunter's ear, when he awakens from dreams of joy, and has heard the music of the spirits of the hill*." . But her emotion can scarcely be imagined, when she heard sung, with the taste and simplicity of true... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 364 pages
...hear thy voice. It is pleasant as the gale of spring, that sighs on the hunter's ear; when he awakens from dreams of joy, and has heard the music of the spirits of the hjll |" AN ANCIENT EPIC POEM. IN SIX BOOKS. BOOK VI, ARGUMENT, Night comes on. Fingal gives a feast... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...example, to describe the nature of soft and melancholy music, Ossian says, " The " music of Carryl was, like the memory of joys that are past, " pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy and delicate. Yet, surely, no kind of music has any resemblance to a feeling of the mindj... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...example, to describe the nature of soft and melancholy music, Ossian says, " The " music of Carryl was, like the memory of joys that « are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy and delicate ; yet no kind of music bears any resemblance to the memory of past joys.... | |
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The other contains a short, but exquisitely tender image, accompanied with the finest poetical painting. " The " music of Carril was like the memory of joys that " are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. 
