 For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as the snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly ! And the passionate strain that, deeply going. Refines the bosom it trembles through, As the...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 1781842Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 pages
...to Cunningham's lines, that it is almost impossible to conceive Mr. Moore had not seen them : — : For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine...are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as siiow on the sea, And melt iu the heart as instantly! , The Light if the Harem. The preceding instances... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1817 - 680 pages
...by the breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy lover shall sigh at thy feet again. For mine is the lav that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow upon the sea, And melt in tne heart a* instantly ! And the passionate strain tha', deeply going, Refines... | |
 | 1822 - 962 pages
...has told us what he thinks music ought to be. He has put these words into the mouth of the Spirit of Music :— " For mine is the lay that lightly floats,...murmuring dying notes That fall as soft as snow on the tea, And melt in the heart as instantly !" It is in this possession, as in Samson's hair, that she... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 374 pages
...music's strain, , I swear by the breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy lover shall sigh at thy feet again, For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine...are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as the snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly ! And the passionate strain that, deeply going.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 470 pages
...music's strain, I swear by ihe breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy lover shall sigh at thy feet again. For mine is the lay that lightly floats. And mine are the muriuiirini; dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the &ca, And melt in the heart as instantly... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 pages
...therefore, surprised that the charm of poetry, and that of music, seem in his mind to be often re-/ garded as identical. The very attributes by which he characterizes...music. 'For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And miue arc the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as... | |
 | 1842 - 584 pages
...attributes by which he characterizes the lays at the command of his ' Spirit of Song ' in I .alia It Rookh, appear to us exactly his own ; and the effect...For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine .ire the murmuring, dying notes, That fall 03 soft as snow on the sea, Ami melt in the heart as instantly.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 pages
...Music's strain, I swear by the breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy Lover shall sigh at thy feet again. For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murm'ring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly :... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...Music's strain, I swear by the breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy Lover shall sigh at thy feet again. hoa murm'ring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly :... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...the sun." — p. 302, 303. We can give but a little morsel of the enchanting Song of the Spirit of Music. " ' For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murm'ring, dying uotes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly !... | |
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