| Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - 1866 - 204 oldal
...perishes, I would rather perish with it than survive its destruction. THE BELLS.—Edgar A. Foe. HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells— What...melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 302 oldal
...Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber, This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." THE BELLS. I. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells I How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that overspr inkle All... | |
| 1886 - 458 oldal
...attenuations: nick, splick (the quarry man's name for a chip of stone), skin, sk\f skip, skim, skive, sketch. " How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of...over-sprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a krystalline delight ! " This of Poe is comparatively cheap work, but the reader must detect in it the... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1867 - 848 oldal
...literature. It is a wonder of verbal felicity : "Hear the pledges with the hells — Silver bells 1 What a world of merriment their melody foretells :...they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night Î While the stars that ovcreprlnkle AU the heavens, eeem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1867 - 400 oldal
...close it has degenerated into something almost like nursery rhymes. Here is its first stanza : — Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells I How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 oldal
...howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home ! • CLX. THE BELLS. H1 "EAB the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What...tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that over sprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time,... | |
| 1868 - 604 oldal
...a rule will lead if followed. Pauses of the same length would thus be required in both passages. " How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of...heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight. " Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless... | |
| Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 oldal
...shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — NEVERMORE ! THE BEIX8. (EDGAR A. FOR.) Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells — What...merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tiukle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinklo All the heavens, seem to... | |
| 1868 - 1048 oldal
...with merry song and merrier laughter ; — and again, perhaps, of moonlight sleigh-rides, — " Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! " All, as you look out of the window, in quieter mood than you know every busy day, you see the snow... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 oldal
...breast — And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. THE BELLS. Edgar A. Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What...crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Eunic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,... | |
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