 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 ページ
...objects of man's existence. (Cf. the various meanings of Epicure). 444 THE HERMIT (Written c. 1766) At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,...And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove: 'Twaa thus by the cave of the mountain afar, 5 While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began; No... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 ページ
...1766) At the close of the day, when the hamlet in still, And mortals the .sweets of forget fulness 9 h 5 While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began; No more with himself or with nature at war, He thought... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 ページ
...chief objects of man's existence. (Cf. the various meanings of Epicure). THE HERMIT (Written c. 1706) At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgctfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's... | |
 | James Frank Hanly - 1916 - 222 ページ
...slope, The day's last splendors shine. — ROBERT SOUTHEY : Rüdiger. 42 ASHLAND TOWN At the close of day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets...And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove. — JAMES BEATTIE : The Hermit. [44] "Merry-hearted children, half concealed amid bending, overladened... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson, Elizabeth Miner Thomas Richardson - 1916 - 208 ページ
...children viewing Kindly bounteous, cares for all.' "Miss Stevens (afterward Mrs. Dana) sang to us: 'At the close of the day when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forget fulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard from the hill And nought but the nightingale... | |
 | City History Society of Philadelphia - 1917 - 548 ページ
...a couplet that used a great many years ago to be hammered into my head as an example in prosody — At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still. And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove. "The Port Folio" printed a letter from him to Dr. Benjamin Rush acknowledging the certificate of his... | |
 | Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe - 1922 - 390 ページ
...Longfellow, etc., edited by Samuel Longfellow, III, 148) : — "Some English poet has said or sung: 'At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove.' "I wish Hamlet would be still ! I wish I could prove the sweets of forgetfulness ! I wish Fechter would... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 ページ
...course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Water and Wood. 8 solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pom fprgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's... | |
 | Thomas Stewart Omond - 1923 - 30 ページ
...this. As, however, he predicates the same of nearly all English verse, from Milton's " Blanks " to " At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still ", and reduces common-time metres to a small and insignificant minority, we may conclude that the ear of this... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 ページ
...may be interesting here to add a poem that bridges the gulf, a poem previously mentioned, Beattie's Hermit: " At the close of the day when the hamlet...And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove ; When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, And naught but the nightingale's song in the grove ; 'Twas... | |
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AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove... 
