| 1840 - 548 pages
...dread, And, smitten to the heart, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, " 0 LORD, THOD ART." Sweet is the dew that falls betimes And drops upon...wakeful taper's smell, That watch for early prayer. Sweet the youngnurse, with smile intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence ; Sweet when the lost... | |
| 1840 - 546 pages
...above, beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, " 0 LORD, THOU A»T." Sweet it the dew that falls betimes And drops upon the leafy limes ; Sweet Ilernion'i fragrant air : Sweet U the lily't silver bell, And tweet the wakeful taper's smell, That... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...olives perch : The swallow also dwells with, thcc, 0 man of God's humility, Within his Saviour's Church. m hen«, said the landlady to me ; for I heard the...when he dies, the youth, his son, will certainly tapers smell That watch for early prayer. Sweet the young nurse, with love intense, Which smiles o'er... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Saviour's Church. Sweet is the dew that falls betimes, And drops upou the leafy limes ; Sweet Hcrmon's . With eyes upraised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sat tapers smell That watch for early prayer. Sweet the young nurse, with love intense, Which smiles o'er... | |
| John William Lester - English literature - 1847 - 376 pages
...and richer tone. What exquisite pauses, and then what vehement eloquence, swelling into grandeur: — Sweet is the dew that falls betimes, And drops upon...wakeful taper's smell, That watch for early prayer. Sweet the young nurse, with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence ; Sweet when the lost... | |
| John William Lester - English literature - 1848 - 112 pages
...richer tone. What exquisite pauses, and then what vehement eloquence, swelling into grandeur : — Sweet is the dew that falls betimes, And drops upon...Sweet is the lily's silver bell, And sweet the wakeful tapers smell, That watch for early prayer. Sweet the young nurse, with love intense, Which smiles o'er... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 580 pages
...follow, we seem to have the original of Byron's far-famed enumeration of things that are ' sweet :' 1 SWEET is the dew that falls betimes, And drops upon the leafy lime* ; Sweet Herman's fragrant air; Sweet is the lily's silver bell. Ami sweet the wukeful tapers'... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...olives perch : The swallow also dwells with thee, 0 man of God's humility, Within his Saviour's Church. tapers smell That watch for early prayer. Sweet the young nurse, with love intense, Which smiles o'er... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...all strength depends, From whose right arm, beneath whose eyes, All period, power, aad enterprize, Commences, reigns, and ends. " Sweet is the dew that...wakeful taper's smell, That watch for early prayer. "Sweet the young nurse, with smile intense, That smiles o'er sleeping innocence, Sweet when the lost... | |
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