 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...Dear Breathed bock again. T/iomos Moore. — Born 1780, Died 1852. 1292.— THE LIGHT OF OTHEE DAYS. st for ever ? Oh, let us keep the soul embalm'd and pure In living virtue, that, dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...outbrake. — MILTON. A soft voice belongs to descriptions of what is soft, gentle, or quiet. Thus: Oft In the stilly night, ere Slumber's chain has bound...dimmed and gone; The cheerful hearts now broken.— MOORE. : 2. Slowness of motion should generally be expressed by slowness of speech.]: Thus: Hear the... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...words, the beauty of the imagery, and the perfect finish of the composition, give them a lasting charm. OFT in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...smiles, the tears, Of hoyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Oft in...fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed ! ibid. As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...music tells 1 Of youth, and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime. Those Evening Bells. Oft, in the stilly night Ere Slumber's...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Oft in the stilly night. I feel like one Who treads... | |
 | WILLIAM FRANCIS AINSWORTH - 1875 - 796 pages
...fresh young voice fang Moore's charming old song — "Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's-chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other...Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are flocl, Whose garlands... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...learn'd the book on pleasure's bowl, And turn'd the leaf with folly's feather. MOORE : To Strangford. Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone ; The cheerful hearts, now broken ! MOORE: Of t in the Stilly Night. Weep not for those... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...hand we'll go. And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my jo. BUKXS OFT ГУ THE STILLY NIGHT. OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound...boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The pyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus in the stilly night, Ere... | |
 | 1875 - 780 pages
...night." The second line, " When slumber's chain has bound me," is bad ; but it goes on very sweetly : — "Fond memory brings the light Of other days around...eyes that shone now dimmed and gone, The cheerful vows now broken." And again — " When I remember nil the friends once linked together I've seen around... | |
 | 1875 - 736 pages
...stilly night, Ere slumber's-chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around ms. The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words...Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands... | |
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Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now... 
