| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 684 Seiten
...or, as it were, The illuminated margo of some old book, While we were gazing, life and motion took. Then swelled the organ : up through choir and nave...mellow thunder rose, until The hushed air shivered willi the throb it gave, Then, poiMiig for a moment, it btooil f-till, And sank and rose again, to... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 Seiten
...rattling thunder Shatters the blueness of a sky serene. EXTRACT FROM A LEGEND OF BRITTANY. TIIF.V swell'd the organ : up through choir and nave The music trembled with an inward thrill Of blio at its own grandeur : wave on wave Its flood of mellow thunder rose, until The hush'd air phiver'd... | |
| George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 508 Seiten
...library after library, without finding anything more like the music of an organ than the following :— " Then swelled the organ up through choir and nave,...grandeur ; wave on wave Its flood of mellow thunder arose, until The hushed air shivered with the throb it gave ; Then, poising for a moment, it stood... | |
| George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 500 Seiten
...library, without finding anything more like the music of an organ than the following :— " Then swe'led the organ up through choir and nave, The music trembled...grandeur ; wave on wave • Its flood of mellow thunder arose, until The hushed air shivered with the throb it gave ; Then, poising for a moment, it stood... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 Seiten
...rattling thunder Shatters the blueness of a aky ecrenc. EXTRACT FROM A LEGEND OF BRITTANY. ТПЕ* swell'd the organ : up through choir and nave The music trembled...thrill Of bliss at its own grandeur: wave on wave It.« flood of mellow thunder rose, until The hush'il air shiver'd with the throb it gave, Then, poising... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 Seiten
...fine passage is from a poem by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, entitled " A Legend of Brittany." THEN swell'd the organ : up through choir and nave The music trembled...on wave Its flood of mellow thunder rose, until The hush'd air shiver'd with the throb it gave, Then, poising for a moment, it stood still, And sank and... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 342 Seiten
...delight, When friendly glances meet, — then silent ease Spread o'er the multitude by slow degrees. Then swelled the organ : up through choir and nave...throb it gave, Then, poising for a moment, it stood stifl, And sank and rose again, to burst in spray That wandered into silence far away. XXX. Like to... | |
| 1870 - 760 Seiten
...of a beautiful description of organ-music in a cathedral, by Lowell, in his " Legend of Brittany " : "Then swelled the organ; up through choir and nave...with an inward thrill Of bliss, at its own grandeur; ware on wave, Ita flood of mellow thunder rose, until The bnsh'dalr shivered with the throb It gave.... | |
| 1870 - 774 Seiten
...by Lowell, in his " Legend of Brittany " : " Then swelled the organ ; up through choir and nave Tho music trembled with an inward thrill Of bliss, at...wave on wave, Its flood of mellow thunder rose, until Tbe busfiM air shivered with the throb it gave. Then, poising for a moment, it stood still, And sank,... | |
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