| Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew, in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression... | |
| 1801 - 452 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey-plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...devotion, or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive takes the impression... | |
| 1828 - 722 pages
...solitary •whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing. Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the . lv>li;m harp, passive, takes the... | |
| 1809 - 530 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the endiusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 pages
...I never hear the loiul solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers, in an autumnal morning,...devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Arc we a piece of machinery, which, like an Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 622 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Te^l me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian... | |
| John Evans - 1807 - 318 pages
...cadence of a troop of grey-plovers ia an antumnal morning, without feeling an ele<' vation of sool like the enthusiasm of devotion, or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to wlmt can this he owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive takes the... | |
| 1809 - 530 pages
...solhary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pages
...solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation...devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression... | |
| 1809 - 448 pages
...cadence of a troop of (fray plover in an autumnal momiiiŁT« without feeling an elevation of soul Tike the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this he owing? Are we apiece of machinery, which, like the Eolinn harp, passive, takes the impression... | |
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