 | England - 1820 - 876 pages
...love and in charity, To shield her and shelter her from the damp air." — t'hristukl, part Itt. " A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid. And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | England - 1820 - 730 pages
...could easily multiply such passages from Coleridge'» works. See the incantation in the >' REMORSE." " A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played. Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - Wine - 1825 - 280 pages
...NOTES. 199 to make music itself twenty times more musical, — to give us the sentiment of a sound. A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Aborah. Here is a picture, a beautiful tune, and a sweetsounding name of a... | |
 | Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - Wine - 1825 - 262 pages
...poet's privilege to make music itself twenty times more musical,— to give us the sentiment of a sound. A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Aborah. Here is a picture, a beautiful tune, and a sweetsounding name of a... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...woes, That saints will aid if men will call, For the blue sky bends over all." THE ABYSSINIAN MAID. " A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Arbora. Could I revive within me Her sympathy and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 530 pages
...217. We cannot help thinking, that Mr. Moore had Mr. Coleridge's Abyssinian maid in his eye : — ' A damsel with a dulcimer, In a vision once I saw ;...It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played. Singing of Mount Abora.' Mr. Moore's is a pleasing picture, and it is certainly not a, copy.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 400 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was « miracle* of rare device, A sunny pleaMira-dome with caves of ice ! ame, And I knew it was the same Which had kindled lo wa* an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she playM, Singing of Mount Ahora. Could I revive within... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 384 pages
...a pendant to the " psychological curiosity," beginning with those exquisitely musical lines : — " A damsel with a dulcimer; In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid," &c. The whole of which, Mr. Coleridge says, was composed by him during a fiesta. —E.] (2) Alluding... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 394 pages
...a pendant to the " psychological curiosity," beginning with those exquisitely musical lines : — " A damsel with a dulcimer, In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid," &c. The whole of which, Mr. Coleridge says, was composed by him during a siesta. — E.] (2) Alluding... | |
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A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I... 
