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
| Manfred - 1876 - 204 Seiten
...blood, was bared by Love's bright laws ! (*) (') " 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." [Tennyson's " Locksley Hall." "Let fame go — CANTO H. CANTO II. rife 0lf jjaditw. K IT ° STILL it... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 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... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood - 1876 - 622 Seiten
...and turned it in his glowing hands, Every moment , lightly shaken , ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all its chords with in I;; 1 1 i , Smote the chord of self, which, trembling, passed with music out of sight." time was,... | |
| Mary Emily Ropes - 1877 - 204 Seiten
...friend's visit, set about her own duties •with renewed vigour. CHAPTER VIII. CONQUERING SELF. " Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all its chords with might ; Smote the chord of self, which trembling, pass'd in music out of sight," Tennyson's " Locksley Sail," , tap, tap, went the rain... | |
| Violet Fletcher (fict.name.) - 1877 - 234 Seiten
...Divine love, the fruit of the Holy Spirit ; a love which, taking up " the harp of life, smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight" Miss Carew and Miss Finnette perceived that there was a principle at work within Violet, which was... | |
| Bertha Jane Laffan - 1877 - 320 Seiten
...truth to exquisite melody, when he sings — " 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." High and true, and pure and tender as William's love for Lilian had ever been, it was now being " tried... | |
| Annie Thomas - 1877 - 392 Seiten
...new to my untutored senses, she made manifest that she understood and accepted my devotion and " Love took up the harp of life And smote on all its chords with might," producing such a melody of passionate bliss as I had never imagined in my wildest dreams. "May I write... | |
| 1878 - 604 Seiten
...of the poet their fullest depth of meaning : " 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." Or, in the language of the Apostle, higher far, yet, withal, more practical : " The love of Christ... | |
| Mary Baskin - 1878 - 332 Seiten
...in most lives there has been a time when — " ' 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.' Love of this fashion came to me once, Philip," I went on, my eyes growing misty over those tender,... | |
| Rev. H. T. Howat - 1878 - 386 Seiten
...this other image from " Locksley Hall : " — " Love took upon 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" These words are a perfect picture of self-conquest, in respect of a holy unselfishness, the product... | |
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