 I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art and nature ever were at strife in. A sound of music touch'd mine ears, or rather Indeed entranced my soul ; as I stole nearer...  The Quarterly Review - Page 463edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...Indeed, entranced my soul : as I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety...Proclaiming (as it seem'd) so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wondering at... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...fair-faced youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety nnd harmony, Proclaiming, as it seemed, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flocked about him, all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wondered too. AMET. And so do... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 pages
...Indeed entranced my soul ; as I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute With strains of strange variety...Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear cloristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wondering at... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...Indeed, entranced my soul : as I stole nearer, Invited by the melody,11 I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety and harmony, Proclaiming, as it seemed, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flocked... | |
 | Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 pages
...Indeed entranced my soul ; as I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute With strains of strange variety...Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear cloristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wondering at... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...Indeed entranced my soul ; as I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute With strains of strange variety...birds, That as they flock'd about him, all stood silent Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too A nightingale, Nature.s best skill'd musician, undertakes... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...rather Intranced my soul : as I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute With strains of strange variety...That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too. Amet. And so do I : good ! on — Men. A nightingale,... | |
 | John Ford - 1869 - 406 pages
...Indeed entranc'd my soul. As I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-fac'd youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety...Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wondering at... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...Indeed entranced my soul: as I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute With strains of strange variety and harmony Proclaiming (as it seemed) so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flocked about... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...Indeed, entranced my soul : As I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety...That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too. Amet. And so do I ; good ! on — Men. A nightingale,... | |
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