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" Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once... "
Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts - Page 21
by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 7

1817 - 628 pages
...nothing finer of the kind. ' Clear, placid Lemun ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. . Tins quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar,...
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The Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and ...

John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pages
...GENEVA. Lake Leman, in a Calm. "Clear, placid Tainan ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild worlil I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring. Sounds sweet as if a Sister's...
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The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 1

H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 492 pages
...passage in the poem. LXXXV. " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved the Ha me Of Heaven again assail'd, if Heaven the while On man and man's research could deign to do...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1818 - 896 pages
...revolutionary politics. " Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, ˇsa thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is ai a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 16

1818 - 904 pages
...the thorny mazes of revolutionary politics. " Clear, placid Lemau! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled watets for a purer This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I spring....
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 7-8

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — iu one we shall be slower. LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the...in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, 1o forsuke Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...had penned me in their fold. ***** Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I've dwelt in is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sisters voice reproved, ' That I with stern delights shoulj e'er have been so moved. It is the hush...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...were colours ! but their tints ' May serve perhaps as outlines or slight hints. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warna me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail...
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Lord Byron, Volume 1

Louise Swanton-Belloc - 1824 - 400 pages
...tant aimé ces sauvages plaisirs. » LXXX\r. Clear, piacid Lcman ! thy contrastcd Iake, With the wide world I dwelt in , is a thing Which warns me , with its stillness , to forsakc Earth's troublcd waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To v, i...
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Alice Allan: The Country Town, Et Cet

Alexander Wilson (Novelist.) - 1825 - 490 pages
..." Clear, placid Leman'. thy contrasted luke " With the wide world I dwelt in, seems a thing " That warns me with its stillness to forsake " Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." The old officer continued—" As we neared the cottage, the youngest daughter suddenly left my hand,...
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