 Now through the hall melodious music stole, And self-prepared the splendid banquet stands, Self-poured the nectar sparkles in the bowl, The lute and viol touched by unseen hands Aid the soft voices of the choral bands; O'er the full board a brighter lustre...  Psyche: With Other Poems - Page 23by Mary Tighe - 1812 - 230 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Tighe - 1805 - 246 pages
...of the choral hands; O'er the foll hoard a hrighter lnstre heams Than Persia's monarch at his fedst commands : For sweet refreshment all inviting seems To taste celestial food, and pnre amhrosial streams. Bnt when meek eve hnng ont her dewy star And gently veil'd with gradnal hand... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 pages
...splendid banquet stands, Self-poured the nectar sparkles in the bowl, The lute and viol touched bv unseen hands Aid the soft voices of the choral bands...taste celestial food, and pure ambrosial streams.' — p. 33. ••' -. . •. . . After After the nuptial ceremony, the following passage occurs, to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 562 pages
...through the hall melodious music stole, And self-prepared, the splendid banquet stands, Self-poured the nectar sparkles in the bowl, • The lute and...bands ; O'er the full board a brighter lustre beams Thau Persia's monarch at his feast commands : For sweet refreshment all inviting seems To taste celestial... | |
 | 1811 - 592 pages
...of the choral bands. O'er the lull board a brighter lustre beams Than Persia's monarch at his leasts commands , For sweet refreshment all inviting seems...taste celestial food, and pure ambrosial streams. XVII. But when meek eve hung out her dewy s(arf And gently veil'd with gradual hand the sky, Lo! the... | |
 | 1811 - 576 pages
...lovr,' — page 13. i:, a bombastic description of a snowdrop escaping from the force of the wind. ' For sweet refreshment all inviting seems To taste celestial food, and pure ambrosial streams,' page 13. is, to us, unintelligible. The word ' undistanced,' page 130. •we believe is of no authority,... | |
 | 1811 - 572 pages
...for this sense of the word " despoiled." The thought is not very clearly conveyed in these lines: " For sweet refreshment all inviting seems To taste celestial food, and pure ambrosial streams." P. 33. There is a confusion too in the following metaphor, from the awkward introduction of the tainted... | |
 | 1811 - 614 pages
...the splendid banquet stands, Selt-pour'd the nectar sparkles in the bowl: The lute and viol, tuuch'd by unseen hands, Aid the soft voices of the choral bands. O'er the lull board a brighter lustre beams Thau Persia's monarch ai im leasts commands; For sweet refreshment... | |
 | 1813 - 670 pages
...throughf the hall melodious music stole, And self-prepared the splendid banquet stands, Self-poured the nectar sparkles in the bowl, The lute and viol touched by unseen hand* Aid the soft voices of the choral bands ; O'er the full board a brighter lustre beams Than Persia's... | |
 | 1837 - 292 pages
...through the hall melodious music stole, And self-prepared the splendid banquet stands, Self-poured the nectar sparkles in the bowl, The lute and viol...unseen hands Aid the soft voices of the choral bands. But hark ! she hears the hymeneal strain ; And trembling listens to the dreaded lay ; The swelling... | |
 | John William Lester - 1848 - 112 pages
...through the hall melodious music stole, [fame. And self-prepared the splendid banquet stands, Self-poured the nectar sparkles in the bowl, The lute and viol touched by unseen hands Amid the soft voices of the choral bands ; O'er the full board a brighter lustre beams Than Persia's... | |
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