| William Wordsworth - 1859 - 386 pages
...attire. These ears, ulas! for other notes repine ; S\ V~A different object do these eyeg require?^ >y* "My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; £* - And in my breast the imperfect joys exjiire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 574 pages
...following beautiful little sonnet' " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire. The birds in vain their amorous...anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire ; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings... | |
| William Allen - 1860 - 110 pages
...mornings shine, And reddening Phcebus lifts his golden flre : The birds in vain their amorous descants join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine." Here this false diction destroys the value of every line. The other remark of Mr. Wordsworth is this... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1862 - 358 pages
...Poemata, p. 186.] IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phrebus lifts his golden fire 5 The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful...anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. V. 9. "Primosque et extremes metendo stravit humum, sine clade victor."... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 pages
...The birds in vain their amorous descant join j^— Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. If. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, •""" A different object do these eyes require : fy My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ;/%. And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. ^ Yet... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...He then quotes Gray's sonnet — " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phcebas lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous...fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas 1 for other notes repine ; A different objeet do thcse ege* require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds ia vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas 1 for other notes repine ; A different object do tftt&e eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...poem is built are wholly neoclassic. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine. And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire; The birds in vain their amorous...anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 pages
...himself." He then quotes Gray's sonnet — In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire; The birds in vain their amorous...anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire! Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new born pleasure brings... | |
| Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...practice belies these "reasonings": In vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different object... | |
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