 | Philip Massinger - English drama - 1840 - 758 pages
...Without acquaintance of more sweet companions, Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by many glorious undertakings. Make choice of any one, and that the meanest, Perfor encounter'd me : I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention, That art [and] nature ever were... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English literature - 1841 - 856 pages
...And soiitary walks. One morning early This accident encountered me : I heart! The sweetest and moet ravishing contention That art and nature ever were...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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came; and living private, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me. I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention, That art and nature ever were at... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...diction, can hardly be paralleled in the language. Ford brings it in in his " Lover's Melancholy " : " One morning early This accident encountered me : I...and nature ever were at strife in. A sound of music touched mine ears, or rather, Indeed, entranced my soul : as I stole nearer, Invited by the melody,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me. I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention, • That art and nature ever were at strife at." This contest was begun by a nightingale, who, chancing to hear a lutanist play several airs upon... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1844 - 330 pages
...Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me : I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art or nature ever were at... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thcssaly I came ; and living private, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me. I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention, That art and nature ever were at... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1845 - 492 pages
...Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me : I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art or nature ever were at... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 312 pages
...by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd ma. I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention, That art and nature ever were at strife at." This contest was begun by a nightingale, who, chancing to hear a lutanist play several airs upon... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 752 pages
...Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks. One morning early, This accident encounter'd me : I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art or nature ever were at... | |
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To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came ; and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary... 
