I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. The Spirit of American Literature - Side 111af John Albert Macy - 1913 - 347 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sider
...Whittier has obtained the suffrages of the reading public. He himself disclaims these eminent merits: 'I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...days. Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling onr noon of time with freshest morning dew, In eilencc feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1884 - 452 sider
...kindling energy of Scott. It was at a later day that he turned to the elder masters, and could write " I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silver phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew." But it should be added that... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 sider
...kissed each other.—Shakespeare. The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.—Ibid. I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through.— Whittier. And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 sider
...this you can hear the deep refrain of Nature, and of Nature chanting her moral ideal. I.— PROEM. i. I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. 5 NOTES. — Line 3. Spenser, Edmund most brilliant courtiers and (1553-1598), one of the most il-... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1886 - 682 sider
...softly пи-It tin- пк-'Ч through, The songs of Spenser's golden day», Arcadian Sidney's rilvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest...marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the. leaves anil Mowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky.... | |
 | 1886 - 996 sider
...that the first battle led to an immediate and lasting peace. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. MATTIE CURL DENNIS. "I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spencer's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 sider
...song." l Who, looking back upon their glorious age, does not respond to Whittier's poetic words ?— " I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silver phrase Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew." The Elizabethan age boasted a... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - 686 sider
...own words. 5. What is meant by "our noon of time?" — What is the figure of speech in this line ? 2. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and floweis In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad, still lips the blessing of the sky.... | |
 | William Henry Rideing - 1887 - 238 sider
...who, as soon as her children could read, opened to them the treasures of English literature, — " The old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages...Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase." Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Milton were familiar to them at an age when most children are still reciting... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 sider
...much of Whittier's poetry, we might, perhaps, take his own quaint and picturesque stanza : — ' ' I love the old melodious lays which softly melt the...ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, ArcadiaSidney's silver phrase, Sprinkling o'er the noon of time with freshest morning dew." Whittier's... | |
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