 | Francis Mahony - French poetry - 1836 - 696 pages
...epicurean and careless turn of mind so strikingly expressed in these lines of " Lalla Eookh" — " 0 ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this ! it is this ! " Which verses, by the by, are alone enough to convict him of downright plagiarism and robbery ;... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury, Lady of rank - 1838 - 218 pages
...With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die. And, oh, if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this.—MooRE. One hour of a passion so sucFed is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss.... | |
 | 1839 - 776 pages
...senses, and a thousand romantic associations to delight the mind — I was ever ready to exclaim, " Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this — it is this !" Every day of my sojourn in the Alhambra, during those hours of intense heat, which in any other... | |
 | Arthur Conolly - Asia - 1838
...water I Bah! bah!" " Ugger Ferdose bur roo-e zumeen att, Humeen ust, 'vo humecn list 'vo humecn " And O if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this! it is this ! it is this!" " Yet ah ! Lord of my soul, what was Neshapoor !" The commendations bestowed upon this... | |
 | Emma Catherine Embury - American fiction - 1838 - 206 pages
...Dec. 18, 1337. CONSTANCE LATIMER; THE BLIND GIRL. CONSTANCE LATIMER; MI THE BLIND GIRL. CHAPTER I, "If there be an Elysium on earth, It is this — it is this." — MOOR K. AMONG the many fine mansions which have recently disappeared before the rage for public... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 pages
...shining comes on. And the love that is o'er, in expiring gives birth To a new one as warm, as unequall'd in bliss ; And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It ii this, it is i Ins. Here maidens are sighing, and fragrant their sigh As the flower of the Amra just... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1839 - 458 pages
...shining comes on. And the love that is o'er, in expiring, gives birth To a new one as warm, as unequall'd in bliss ; And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth,...fragrant their sigh As the flower of the Amra just oped by a bee ;f And precious their tears as that rain from the sjiy,j Which turns into pearls as it... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1839 - 766 pages
...the senses, and a thousand romantic associations to delight the mind — I was ever ready to exclaim, Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this — it is tliis !" rery day of my sojourn in the Alhambra, during those hours of intense heat, which in any other... | |
 | Sarah Rogers Haight - Egypt - 1840 - 344 pages
...spot of earth has produced upon my feelings, you would be ready to join in my frequent exclamation, " Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, it is this, it is this!" In a few days I will say something to you respecting the city of Damascus, the oldest 'inhabited city... | |
 | India - 1858 - 438 pages
...of private audience, run, in letters of gold on white marble, the lines immortalised by Moore: — ' If there be an Elysium on earth, it is this, it is this ! ' The sybaritism of this licentious city, its picturesque and curious buildings, its modern private... | |
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