 | Bayle St. John - 1849 - 204 páginas
...life, yet there are times, perhaps, when we could wish to realize the idea of the poet, who says: " Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister !" I AM indebted to the kindness of David L. Price, Esq., a chemist of distinguished abilities, for... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1849 - 424 páginas
...life, yet there are times, perhaps, when we could wish to realize the idea of the poet, who says : " Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister !" I AM indebted to the kindness of David L. Price, Esq., a chemist of distinguished abilities, for... | |
 | 1852 - 702 páginas
...to be associated with exalted womanly virtue, wis, when in the CXVII. stanza— he breaks forth : 11 Ye elements ! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — can ye not Accord me such a being ?" And how unmistakably does he not confess himself a stranger to it, as he continues — " Do I err... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1852 - 928 páginas
...that passage. " Ob, that the desert were my dwelling place, With one fair spirit for my minister, So I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her." " Och ! that the dacerd wor me dwelling place," I heard, in a suppressed voice, behind me, as if reciting... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...Even as our outward aspects ; — thou dost rise, And shine, and set in glory. BYRON. THE OCEAN. 0 ! THAT the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair...hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements ! — in whoso ennobling stir 1 feel myself exalted — can ye not Accord me such a being? Do I err In deeming... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 páginas
...bring us. | CHILDE HAROLD'S ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN. (BYRON.) O that the desert were my dwelPing-place, | With one fair spirit for my minister, | That I might...race', | And, hating no one, | love but only her( ! | • M&n'nark ; not monnuck. b Move in anger ; not mo-vin-nang' per. c Pause in amity ; not paw-zin-nam'ity.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 páginas
...snn, And reap from earth, sea, joy almost as dear As if there were no man to tronble what is clear. Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With...Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the hnman race, And, hating no one, love bnt only her! Ye elements !—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself... | |
 | 1853 - 402 páginas
...undeveloped minds to comprehend, and it is as though it were not. In fact Byron's prayer is almost realized, "Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister." It is the littleness of our world, and the absence of those motives which afterward distract us, we... | |
 | 1866 - 760 páginas
...way home, all that night, the over-consciousness of thought sticking in us like pins and needles ! " Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister I" But ladies will not go into the desert eve* to spend the honeymoon; and if the fair and lovely "... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 páginas
...reap from earth, sea, joy almost as dear As if there were no man to trouble what is clear. CLXXVII. Oh ! that the desert were my dwelling-place, With...elements !—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted—Can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though... | |
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Ye Elements ! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot. 
