 | François Bernier - India - 1891 - 572 pages
...fountains are made to play, having been restored some years ago. 2 Among others, the celebrated legend, ' If there be an Elysium on earth, it is this, it is this.' :i The mate1ial forming the pillars is believed to be a black and grey fossilifcrous marble ; the stone... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1891 - 310 pages
...till they died." "One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and selfish found bliss ; And oh, If there be an Elysium on earth, It is this— yes, surely 'tis this." Think you were these teachings in vain? Did that father and mother, who taught... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1891 - 310 pages
...till they died." " One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and selfish found bliss ; And oh, if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this— yes, surely 'tis this." Think you were these teachings in vain? Did that father and mother, who taught... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1892 - 582 pages
...till they die' One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering blisst; And, oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this. 'Twas not the air, 'twas not the words, But that deep magic in the chords And in the lips, that gave... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 pages
...brooks, as on we passed, appeared To question uu, " Whence come ye ? To what end t" ' CHAPTER V. ' Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this.' — Moore. Grasmere described — Dove Cottage — 'Lyrical Ballads,' in two volumes (1800) — Wordsworth... | |
 | Readers - 1893 - 346 pages
...shining comes on. And the love that is o'er, in expiring gives birth To a new one as warm, as unequalled in bliss ; And, oh, if there be an Elysium on earth It is this, it is this ! " 'Twas not the air, 'twas not the words, But that deep magic in the chords. At once a hundred voices... | |
 | Robert George Hobbes - India - 1893 - 594 pages
...inscriptions, the frieze bearing the motto familiar to us from the passage in " Lalla Rookh " :— " If there be an Elysium on earth, It is this ! it is this ! " — alas ! conspiracies and assassinations have had their home * On one of these columns is shown... | |
 | Flora Annie Webster Steel - Folklore - 1894 - 456 pages
...wellknown Persian verses in the Diwan-i-Kh&s (Hall of Private Audience) at Delhi and elsewhere — • ' And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this.' The verses run really thus — Agarfirdtis ba r&-c-zamtn ast, Hamtn ast o hamln ast o hamtn ast ! If... | |
 | Louise Jordan Miln - Asia - 1894 - 432 pages
...am the only woman among a boat-load of men, and the weather behaves itself, I always say to myself, "If there be an Elysium on earth it is this — it is this ! " The three gentlemen were — the Editor of a HongKong paper, a charming fellow and a good friend... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1895 - 874 pages
...the love that is o'er, in expiring giro birth To a new one as warm, as unequalled in bliss; And, oh 1 if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is...fragrant their sigh As the flower of the Amra just oped by a bee; 7 And precious their tears as that rain from the sky, 8 Which turns into pearls as it... | |
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