 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 pages
...was his recitation of Kubla Khan. As he repeated the passage — A damsel with a dulcimer In a rision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Abora t his voice seemed to mount and melt into air, as the images grew more... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 pages
...more peculiar in its beauty than this was his recitation of Kubla Khan. As he repeated the passage — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Abora! his voice seemed to mount and melt into air, as the images grew more... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1854 - 532 pages
...better things in our language, looking merely to versification, than the psychological curiosity — " A damsel, with a dulcimer, In a vision once I saw, It was an Abyssinian maid, And on a dulcimer she -played, Singing of Mount Abora," <fco. 19* Or Frere's translation of the Frogs, printed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 712 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...than this was his recitation of Kubla Khan. As he repeated the passage — A damsel with a duleimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her duleimer she played Singing of Mount Abora! his voice seemed to mount and melt into air, as the images... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 pages
...more peculiar in its beauty than this was his recitation of Kubla Khan. As he repeated the passage — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mont Abora ' his voice seemed to mount and melt into air as the images grew more... | |
 | George Wilson - Knowledge, Theory of - 1856 - 146 pages
...dogmatically on this point, we never fully dream a sound. Coleridge in his " Kubla Khan " declares : — " A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora." But this was the visionary vision of a poet ; in dreams, I imagine,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Dreams - 1856 - 296 pages
...Irighten With a light that is clearer than day. PBAED. Like the faint, exquisite music of a dream. MOORE. A damsel with a dulcimer, In a vision once I saw ;...It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Abora. COLERIDGE'S Dream Poem. Breathed into a pipe of sycamore Some strangely... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abors, Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...Kubla Khan; or a Vision in a Dream"—composed (he averred) in sleep — has the following lines :— "A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, _ And on a dulcimer she played, and water—(it appears in the hand of a plebeian—body unknown—... | |
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A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. 
