 | William Mathews - 1878 - 408 Seiten
...verse our rugged but pithy and expressive English breathes all sounds, all melodies; "And now 'tis like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute, And...an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute." The superiority of the writers of the seventeenth century to those of our own day is due not less to... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 474 Seiten
...verse our rugged but pithy and expressive English breathes all sounds, all melodies; "And now 'tis like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute, And...now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mate." The superiority of the writers of the seventeenth century to those of our own day is due not... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 Seiten
...darted to the sun ; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mix'd, now one by one. Sometimes, a-drooping hem all. XXIX. Lord Marmion then his boon did ask; The palmer took on him the task, S seem'd to fill the sea and air, With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now... | |
 | 1876 - 1000 Seiten
...came back again Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky- lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the air With their sweet jargouiug. And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And now... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - 1988 - 458 Seiten
...sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark...sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seem'd to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 't was like all instruments, Now... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 Seiten
...sounds already discussed, where we find metaphors drawn from a common stock of religious vocabulary ("And now it is an angel's song, / That makes the heavens be mute"), as well as from a hospitable shore landscape. From this point on, the rich sensorial language and swift-moving... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 Seiten
...blest:] not in LB1 345 gloss demons] daemons 7S77, 1828, 1829 350 For ... it] The day-light LBI 360 Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed...'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; 365 And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased; yet still the sails made... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 Seiten
...hears another music, angelic but natural: "Sometimes a-dropping from the sky / I heard the sky-larks sing; / Sometimes all little birds that are, / How...fill the sea and air / With their sweet jargoning!" (358-62). Antipodal to the slaying of the albatross, this loving sensitivity to the beauty and beauty-making... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again. Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. .60 l"he lonesome Spirit from the south-pole carries on the ship av far ar the Line, in ohedience to... | |
 | Abraham Moses Klein - 1997 - 234 Seiten
...heaven's gate sings, / And Phoebus gins arise' [Cymbeline 2.3.20-1]. little birds make a sweet jargoning: 'Sometimes all little birds that are, / How they seemed...fill the sea and air / With their sweet jargoning!' [Coleridge, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' 360-2]. slug-a-bed: 'Get up, sweet slug-a-bed' [Herrick,... | |
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Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; sometimes all little birds that are, how they seemed to fill the sea and air with their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, now like a lonely flute; and now it is an angel's... 
