 The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage...  Elements of Criticism - Page 130by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816Full view - About this book
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...with the enamelled stones Giving a gentle kiss to ev'ry sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage : And M) by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport, to the wild Ocean. A lively originality of thought is here combined with a most enchanting simplicity. How many streams... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1815 - 884 pages
...the enamelled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge Uevcertaketh in hit piigrimage : And so hy many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean. The pleasing personification which we attribute to a brook, is founded upon the faint belief of voluntary... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...with th' enamell'd stones. Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage: And eo by many winding nooks he strays, : With willing sport,...Then let me go, and hinder not my course; I'll be aa patient as a gentle stream, And make a pastime of each weary step, Till the last step have brought... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pages
...He makes sweet music with th' enamelled stones, Giving a gentle kits to every sedge He orertiihelh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean." Is it not perfect ? SEWARO. % It is. Music — Painting, and Poetry — BULLER. Sculpture and architecture.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...hindered, He makes sweet music with th' enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild oceant. Then let me go, and hinder not my course : I'll be as patient as a gentle stream, And make... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage : And so by many winding nooks he strays, Wilh willing sport, to the wild ocean.* Then let me go,...step have brought me to my love; And there I'll rest, at after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium." If Shakspeare indeed had written only this... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...overtaketh in bis pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he ftrart, With willing sport, to the wi.d ocean. Then let me go, and hinder not my course, I'll be as patient as the gentle stream. And make a pastime of each weary step, Till the last step have brought me to my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...hinder'd, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he...love ; And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, t A blessed soul doth in Elysinm. Lue. But in what habit will you go along? Jul. Not like a woman ;... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1821 - 466 pages
...makes sweet music with the enamel I'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in Ms pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean. The pleasing personification which we attribute to a brook, is founded upon the faint belief of voluntary... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 108 pages
...with the enamelled stonet, ' Giving a gentle kin to every sedge ' He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; 1 And so by many winding nooks he strays, 'With willing sport, to the WILD OCEAN." How many images of poetry are here brought together in one delightldl picture! If my opponents should... | |
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