Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. The money lender - Seite 71von Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1854 - 243 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1849 - 468 Seiten
...Love sacrifices itself. What says Tennyson ? — ' Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of self, that trembling passed in music out of sight.' " " Cite proofs, and not the fictions of poetry, if you wish to convert me, Mr. Dundas. I could as... | |
| 1842 - 610 Seiten
...moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And herwhisper throng'd my pulses with... | |
| Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 Seiten
...ev'ry mo-nent, lightly shaken, Ran itself in golden sands." when " Love took up; he harp of Life, Aai smote on all its chords with might; Smote the chord of self, th-it, trembling, Passed in music out of sight." As I have said, the world seems conscious of this... | |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1850 - 152 Seiten
...itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on nil the chords with might, Smete the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. TENHYSON. THE mistress of Summerwood was a living homily on the blessings of early rising. Every morning... | |
| 1851 - 608 Seiten
...Tennyson's Locksley Hall contains this beautiful couplet : — " Love took up the harp of Life and emote on all its chords with might, Smote the chord of self, that trembling passed in music out of sight." In Mr. Mulchinock's Chant for Toilers this is very coolly reproduced : — " From the chord of self-evoking... | |
| Daniel Wise - 1851 - 294 Seiten
...them.- In her the song of the poet is realized : " Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might, Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." The celebrated WILLIAM WIRT, in a letter to his daughter, discourses on the power of this unselfish... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 Seiten
...took up thte glass of Time, and turned it in his Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper thronged my pulses with... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 Seiten
...took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring. And her whisper thronged my pulses with... | |
| M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1852 - 358 Seiten
...moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper thronged my pulses with... | |
| Grace Greenwood - 1853 - 430 Seiten
...waste garden of her heart. With her it was sorrow that ' Took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that trembling passed in music out of sight.' Into the joys and hopes of others she threw her spirit ; for others she sung cheerfully and bravely.... | |
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