| Robert Turnbull - 1849 - 346 pages
...is as if the spirit of heaven had .cast its shadow upon the earth. " It is a beauteous evening, culm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility ; Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, . And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 pages
...combination of the most powerful and intense meditation with the utmost sweetness of feeling. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...is on the sea ; Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl... | |
| 1851 - 778 pages
...disappointed. Well, Jonathan, what more have you jotted down ? SLJNQSBY resumes his reading : — " ' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea,' as we step ashore at Glenfalloch. The moon shines out with a mild lustre, replacing... | |
| 1851 - 608 pages
...meant to advocate, let us be contented with the following beautiful and highly meditative sonnet : " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in tranquillity ; The gentleness of Ьеатеп is on the sea. Listen 1 the mighty Being is awake, And... | |
| 1851 - 838 pages
...disappointed. Well, Jonathan, what more have you jotted down ? SIJNGSBY resumes his reading : — " ' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking dowu in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea,' as we step ashore at Glenfalloch.... | |
| William James Linton - 1851 - 806 pages
...possessed by hypocrisy, and the worship of Nature and Truth become an undesired thing ! ' It is a beautons evening, calm and free ; ' The holy time is quiet as a Nun 'Breathless with adoration.' There has been heavy raiu ; and the parched earth has been refreshed, even as a fierce passion is relieved... | |
| University magazine - 1851 - 796 pages
...disappointed. Well, Jonathan, what more have you jotted down ? SLINUSBÏ resumes his reading : — " ' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet, аа a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad snn Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. 230 231 It ia a beauteous Evening. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...the sea; Listen! • — the mighty Being is awake. And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingI^. Dear child ! dear girl... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 pages
...— I stood upon the sands, alone. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. SONNET. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be : The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 pages
...— I stood upon the sands, alone. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. SONNET. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be : The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A... | |
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