 | George Wilson - Knowledge, Theory of - 1856 - 146 pages
...dogmatically on this point, we never fully dream a sound. Coleridge in his " Kubla Khan " declares : — " A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora." But this was the visionary vision of a poet ; in dreams, I imagine, we hear no sounds, unless it be... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 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 :...maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abors, Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...Kubla Khan; or a Vision in a Dream"—composed (he averred) in sleep — has the following lines :— "A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, _ And on a dulcimer she played, and water—(it appears in the hand of a plebeian—body unknown—... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1858 - 792 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 :...maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount A bora . Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...Khan, as beginning with an exquisite niece of music, and ending with a most poetical phantasm : — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song. To such a deep delight 't would win me That with music loud and long I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 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 play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 802 pages
...surprise ; so I explained that I had been anxious to ascertain the truth of Coleridge's lines, — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw — It was her Abjssinian maid, And on a dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. The answer was satisfactory.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 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 :...Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 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 play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
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I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! 
