 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...connected with them, Lord Byron bids farewell to the Rhine in the subsequent descriptive passages. " Adieu to thee, fair Rhine ! How long delighted The...Thine is a scene alike where souls united Or lonely ContemplatidfrJtbifeimight stray ; And could the ceaseless vultures cease to prey On self.condemning... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...the Rhine in the subsequent descriptive passages. " Adieu to thee, fair Rhine ! How long delighted Thine is a scene alike where souls united Or lonely Contemplation thus might stray; The stranger fain would linger on his way ' • And could the ceaseless vultures cease to prey 1 On... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...Contrasts of Jllpine Scenery. — BVROW. ADIEU to thee, fair Khine ! how long, delighted, The stranger lain would linger on his way ! Thine is a scene alike where...austere, Is to the mellow Earth as Autumn to the year. Auicu to thee again ! a Tain adieu ! There can be no farewell to scenes like thine ; The mind is coloured... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...hafe to Summer's rain — , . On which the iron shower for years had pour'd LIX. Adicu to thec, fait Rhine ! How long delighted The stranger fain would linger on his way ! Thine is a acene alike where souls united Or lonely Contemplation thus might stray ; And could the ceaseless vultures... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...roofs bare to Summer's rain — On which the iron-shower for years had pour'd in vain. Adieu to (lire, ear. And gathering storms around convulse the closing year. Adieu to thee again ! a vain adieu ! There can be no farewell to scene like thine; The mind is colour'd... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...roofs bare to Summer's rain— On which the iron shower for years bad pour'd in vain. Adieu to thec, fair Rhine ! How long delighted The stranger fain...Nature, nor too sombre, nor too gay, Wild but not rnde, awful yet not austere, to the mellow earth as Autumn to the year. LX. Adieu to thee again! a... | |
 | John Barclay (of Calcots.) - English language - 1826 - 184 pages
...brown o'erarching groves That contemplation loves, Where willowy Camus LINGERS with delight. Gray. Adieu to thee, fair Rhine ! how long delighted The stranger fain would LINGER on his way. Byron. XXVIII. " To LOITER (loter-en, Dutch), to " spend time carelessly, to idle."—Johnson. This... | |
 | Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 pages
...order fully to know and thoroughly to enjoy the beauties and grandeurs with which that space abounds. Adieu to thee, fair Rhine ! How long delighted The...souls united Or lonely contemplation thus might stray ; Where Nature, nor too sombre nor too gay, Wild hut not rude, awful yet not austere, Is to the mellow... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Children's stories - 1827 - 148 pages
...much better described in Childe Harold. CAROLINE. Oh, I remember, Frank. It begins— " Adieu to tbec, fair Rhine ! How long delighted, The stranger fain would linger on his way ! " FRANK. That is the passage I refer to. We will read it another time. Well, I will begin where the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...bare to summer's ruin — f>n which the iron shower for years had pour'd in vain. LIX. AHieu to ihee, fair Rhine ! How long delighted . The stranger fain would linger on his way! Tbine is а гл'еое alike where souls united Or lonely contemplation thus might stray : And could... | |
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Adieu to thee, fair Rhine! How long delighted The stranger fain would linger on his way! Thine is a scene alike where souls united Or lonely Contemplation thus might stray; And could the ceaseless vultures cease to prey On self-condemning bosoms, it were... 
