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" The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the floating tides : While melting music steals upon the sky, And soften'd sounds along the waters die : •Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs... "
Wit and Humor - Page 206
by Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 261 pages
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...prize : The powers gave ear, and granted half his prayer, The rest, the winds dispersed in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides : 1 'Baron': Lord Petre. While melting music steals upon the sky, 49 And soften'd sounds along the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...prize : The powers gave ear, and granted half his prayer, The rest, the winds dispersed in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides : 1 ' Baron ' : Lord Petre. While melting music steals upon the sky, 49 And soften'd sounds along the...
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Foreign Etchings; Or, Outline Sketches of the Old World's Pleasant Places

James Walter Wall - Europe - 1856 - 336 pages
...•was again seated beneath the rich awning of her gilded barge in conscious beauty : "The sumbeams trembling on the floating tides; While melting music steals upon the sky, And softened sounds along the waters die; Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play Belinda smiled,...
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The British Switzerland; or, Picturesque rambles in the English ..., Volume 1

Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1858 - 422 pages
...the " Rokeby" (canto vi.) of Sir Walter Scott. . -- fe С THE FERRY-HOUSE AND 'REGATTA, WINDERMERE. " But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams...tides ; While melting music steals upon the sky, And softened sounds along the waters die ; Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smiled,...
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Works ...

Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...breathes three amorous sighs to light the fire. Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Boon to obtain, and long possess the prize. — But now...waters die ; Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently jilay, Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay, All but the sylph. With careful thoughts opprest...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...prize : The powers gave ear1, and granted half his prayer, The rest, the winds dispersed in empty air. o, smiled, and all the world was gay. AH but the sylph — with careful thoughts opprest, The impending...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 1

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 352 pages
...prize : The powers gave ear, and granted half his prayer, The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams...tides ; While melting music steals upon the sky, And soflen'd sounds along the waters die : Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smil'd,...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...prize : The powers gave ear, and granted half his prayer The-fest the winds dispersed in empty air ^^"But now secure the painted vessel glides. The sun-beams trembling on the floating tide* : While melting music steals upon the sky, And soften'd sounds along the water die ; Smooth flow...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...written. Here is one of the descriptions, full of life and light, from the Itape of the Lock : — But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams...tides ; While melting music steals upon the sky, And softened sounds along the water die'; Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smiled,...
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English grammar practice

George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...to face.' EXERCISE. Let the learner explain the forms of verse used in the following extracts. 1. ' But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams...tides; While melting music steals upon the sky, And softened sounds along the water die : Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smiled,...
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