 The haughtiest breast its wish might bound, Through life to dwell delighted here; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear. Could thy dear eyes, in following mine, Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! FADED FLOWERS.  Trip to the Rhine and Paris - 74. oldalszerző: Thomas M. Gemmell - 1859Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Pomponius Mela - 1761 - 168 oldal
...in proud decay, Look o'er this vale of vintage-bowers. But one thing want these banks of Rhine — Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine ! "The river nobly...flows, The charm of this enchanted ground ; And all its varying turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round. The haughtiest breast its wish might bound,... | |
 | 1831 - 492 oldal
...covered with vines and brushwood, looked like the upheavings of a bright green sea. At our feet— " The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this...turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round." On the opposite shore the hill of Rolandseck, with its ruined castle, comes down to the water's edge,... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1823 - 194 oldal
...extremely serpentine, and reminded me of some lines of Lord Byron's, in which he describes the Rhine : " The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its various turns disclose Some new-born beauty varying round. The haughtiest breast its wish might bound... | |
 | Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 oldal
...becoming as rapid as ever, encountering occasionally a sandbank or a ledge of rocks, round which " The river nobly foams and flows " The charm of this enchanted ground, " And all its thousand tarns disclose " Some fresher beauty varying round. The moment of our passing Braubach was highly favourable... | |
 | John Hoppus - 1836 - 770 oldal
...a rock which steeply lowers, And noble arch in proud clecav, Look o'er this vale of vintage-bowers. The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this...turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round. Among innumerable views, on which we might have lingered in admiration for hours, were — that which... | |
 | 1836 - 352 oldal
...walls aiong them shine ; Have strewn a scene which I should see. With double joy wert thou with me. The river nobly foams and flows, . • -, The charm of this enchanted ground. And all its thousand twines disclose Some fresher beauty varying round ; The haughtiest breast iis wish might bound. Through... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1837 - 164 oldal
...a single glance of the eye, either in this or any other country ; and amidst all these beauties, " The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this...turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round." This fairy-land was the scene of the bloody atrocities and human slaughter during the war of 1832 and... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 oldal
...them drooping nigh, And know'st them gather'd by the Rhine, And offer'd from my heart to thine! 4. ethren ere they sank beneath Tyrants and tyrants' slaves? — the fi Aud all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round : The haughtiest breast its wish... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1839 - 260 oldal
...the whole of that canto of Childe Harold is!" and then went on reciting the next stanza. " The rirer nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Through life to dwell delighted here; Nor could on earth a spot be found Some fresher beauty varying... | |
 | Pedestrian, John Aiton - 1842 - 406 oldal
...defy description. Every turn of the paddles presents the objects in a new and more interesting light. The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this...turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round. A blending of all beauties, streams, and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine,... | |
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