| Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 pages
...on till they die ! One hour of a passion, so sacred, is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And oh! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this. MOORE. INFANTICIDE is now but little known in India. By the exertions of Governor Duncan and Colonel... | |
| Thomas Moore - Folk songs, Irish - 1825 - 374 pages
...on till they die ! One hour of a passion so sacred, is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! To a lady on her singing. Thy song has taught my heart to feel Those soothing thoughts of heavenly... | |
| Emma Roberts - India - 1825 - 356 pages
...feature to the scene. It is well known that the line, quoted by Mr. Moore, in Lalla Rookh, — Oil ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is thist — is to be found in the audience-chamber of the King of Delhi; and though the glory of the... | |
| William Child Green - 1826 - 606 pages
...bless M wish the odour our goblet gircg forth. What spirit the sweets of his Eden would miss .' For Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this— it is thu !" but they were soon to experience the conviction that there is no Elysium for those who have... | |
| Asia - 1827 - 864 pages
...The translator has pointed out a passage from the author of Latta Rookk which is exactly parallel : And, oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this ! it is this ! Is the coincidence accidental or otherwise ? The Mirza visited the theatre, and describes a play... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...birth To a new one a* warm, as unequal! >l in bliss; And oh! if there be an Elysium on earth, II U this, it is this. Here maidens are sighing, and fragrant their sigh As the tlower of the Amra just oped by a bee ;7 'be Georgian s song was scarcely mnte, When the same me.isure,... | |
| Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1828 - 600 pages
...elaborate Persian character. Round the frieze is the motto, recorded, I believe, in Lalla Rookh, " If there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this!" The marble floor, where not covered by carpets, is all inlaid in the same beautiful manner with the... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...love on till they die! One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss; And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it» this. Т was not the air, ч was not the words, But that deep magic in the chords And in the lips,... | |
| Asia - 1827 - 822 pages
...The translator has pointed out a passage from the author of Latin Rookh which is exactly parallel : And, oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this ! it is this ! Is the coincidence accidental or otherwise ? The Mirza visited the theatre, and describes a play... | |
| Leonard Crocker Bowles - Bishops - 1831 - 372 pages
...flowers, and inscriptions in the most elaborate Persian character. Round the frieze is the motto, ' If there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this.' The marble floor, where not covered by carpets, is all inlaid in the same beautiful manner with the... | |
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