| Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...Union perishes, I would rather perish with it than survive its destruction. THE BELLS.—Edgar A. Foe. HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells—...melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - History - 1859 - 302 pages
...— Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber, This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." THE BELLS. I. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells I How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that overspr inkle All... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...THE BELLS. —Pew. Time quick and moderate. — Middle Pitch. — Pure, ringing, metallic Quality. Hear the sledges with the bells, — Silver bells!...From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. 3. THE LAUNCHING OP THE SHIP. — Longfellow.... | |
| Electronic journals - 1886 - 458 pages
...attenuations: nick, splick (the quarry man's name for a chip of stone), skin, sk\f skip, skim, skive, sketch. " How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of...over-sprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a krystalline delight ! " This of Poe is comparatively cheap work, but the reader must detect in it the... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Literature - 1867 - 400 pages
...close it has degenerated into something almost like nursery rhymes. Here is its first stanza : — Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells I How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All... | |
| Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 pages
...followed that the rest of the river was but shallow, but thus they got over. Bwiyan. H1 THE BELLS. ' EAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells ! What...From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells... | |
| Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 pages
...soul, and chained of limb, What is your carnival to him ? Ex. CXXVH— THE BELLS. EDGAR A, n ] IKAR the sledges with the bells, — Silver bells! What...the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twingle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home ! • CLX. THE BELLS. H1 "EAB the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What...tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that over sprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time,... | |
| Education - 1868 - 610 pages
...a rule will lead if followed. Pauses of the same length would thus be required in both passages. " How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of...heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight. " Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless... | |
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