 | 1862 - 818 pages
...His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens — then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." * Strange as it may seem, the zoologist finds the sea more fertile in living forms than the land. Homer... | |
 | 1843 - 844 pages
...verhatim, from his " Satire on Satirists." Shake one, and it awakeni — then apply Its polish'd lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." These are lines for you, sir ! They are mine. What do you think of them ? North. — I think very well... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pages
...slumber, to speak with miraculous organ, like tho shell which has only to be lifted, and " pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there" — their power, so silent and sublime, of drawing tears, kindling blushes, awakening laughter, calming... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 pages
...the wave. — Shake one, and it awakens — then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And And it remembers its august abodes, ' And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." The three apartments above served equally for store-rooms and bedchambers. William Dove, the brother, slept... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1836 - 46 pages
...Stitcht to tear up ? wherein 'tis hard to find One happy fancy, one affection kind. Its polisht lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. GEBIB. The words in the Excursion markt by italics are certainly not imitated from Gebir; and it is... | |
 | 1837 - 612 pages
...singular coincidence with a passage in The Excursion : — ' And I have sinuous shells of pearly hue ; — Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips...abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' The passage from ' The Excursion ' is this — ' I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 606 pages
...The Excursion : — ' And I have sinuous shells of pearly hue ; — Shake one and it awakens, thru apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And...abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' The passage from ' The Excursion ' is this — ' I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett - 1841 - 40 pages
...unyoked, His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." To the wondering ear of childhood, those "Sonorous cadences expressed Mysterious union with its native... | |
 | 1862 - 512 pages
...imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips...august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. From l,,l>,r. FROM COUNT JULIAN. JULIAN. O cruelty — to them indeed the least! My children, ye are... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1842 - 296 pages
...unyoked, His chariot-wheel stands mid-way in the wave : Shake one and it awakens ; then apply Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." PAGE 167, ACT III., SCENE VII. " Cumbu is my gage, And by the crown of his head I know the times. Grow... | |
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And... 
