 | 1805 - 506 pages
...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill !. . we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...eager and suspended soul, Woo Terror to delight us ;. . but to hear The roaring of die raging elements, To know all human skill, all human strength, Avail... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1806 - 276 pages
...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill ! . . we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...eager and suspended soul, Woo Terror to delight us ; . . but to hear The roaring of the raging elements, To know all human skill, all human strength,... | |
 | 1806 - 688 pages
...remembered terrors of the storm, is easy natural and amusing . 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hcarthi to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the deep,...that. we are safe ; Then listen to the perilous tale sqrain, And, with nn eager aad suspended soul, tt'oo terror to Might ut i— but to hear The roaring... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 318 pages
...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill! .. we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...at times, and feel that we are safe ; Then listen lo the perilous tale a^ain, And, with an eager and suspended soul, Woo Terror to delight us ;.. but... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1815 - 330 pages
...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill ! . . we drove before the storm. 'Tis pleasant, by the chearful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...eager and suspended soul. Woo terror to delight us. . . But to hear The roaring of the raging elements, . . To know all human skill, all human strength,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...very heavy gales of wind which continue for three or four days, often occur in the month of February. 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests,...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. — But to hear The roaring of the raging elements ; To know all human skill, all human strength, Avail... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...heavy gales of wind which continue for three or four days, often occur in the month of February. ' I .< pleasant, by the cheerful hearth to hear of tempests, and the dangers of the deep. And panieal times, and feel that we are safe; Then listen to the perilous tale again. And, with an eager... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...is a passage in Southey's poem of Madoc even superior to the celebrated " Suave marl" of Lucretius. 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests...eager and suspended soul Woo terror to delight us. Madoc, part iv. p. 43. Raphael is said to have embodied " the lightning" of the mind: and Gray characterizes... | |
 | J. R - 1824 - 350 pages
...passage in Southey's ' Madock,' where he says : ' Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear f ' Of tempests, and the dangers of the deep, • And...eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us : but, to hear The roaring of the raging elements ; To know all human skill, all human strength, Avail... | |
 | Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...homeward hopes, Vain all their skill! — we drove before the storm. T is pleasant, by the chcarful hearth, to hear Of tempests, and the dangers of the...feel that we are safe; Then listen to the perilous talc again, And with an eager nnd suspended soul. Woo terror to delight us — But to hear The roaring... | |
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Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe ; Then listen to the perilous tale again, And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. 
