 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 430 Seiten
...and lady's charms, Give place to honour and to arms ! Waverley. A PRAYER. BY WILLIAM BECKFORD, ESO. LIKE the low murmur of the secret stream, Which, through...way, My suppliant voice is heard :— Ah ! do not deem That on vain toys I throw my hours away. In the recesses of the forest vale, — On the wild mountain,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 498 Seiten
...of love, and lady's charms, Give place to honour and to arms ! A PRAYER. BY WILLIAM BECtFORD, ESQ. LIKE the low murmur of the secret stream, Which, through dark alders, winds its shaded way, Sly suppliant voice is heard : — Ah ! do not deem That on vain toys I throw my hours away. In the... | |
 | 1838 - 332 Seiten
...the frame's corruption to control, But build a lasting mansion fur thy soul. HORACE SMITH. PRAYER. LIKE the low murmur of the secret stream, Which through...way, My suppliant voice is heard ; — Ah ! do not deem That on vain toys I throw my hours away. In the recesses of the forest valef On the wild mountain,... | |
 | 1844 - 588 Seiten
...lines, entitled "A Prayer," are proof of this. They were published in another work many years ago. Like the low murmur of the secret stream, Which through...shaded way, My suppliant voice is heard : ah, do not deem That on vain toys I throw my life away! great excellence, his mind was eminently poetical —... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 Seiten
...illustrious stranger. A PBAYEB BT THE LATE WILLIAM BECKFORD, ESQ. (From Rivingtoris Annual Register.) Like the low murmur of the secret stream, Which through...winds its shaded way, My suppliant voice is heard : ah I do not deem That on vain toys I throw my hours away. In the recesses of the forest vale, On the wild... | |
 | 1847 - 434 Seiten
...The first is the best, the second is the next, and the third is bad enough. LINES, BY MR. BECKFORD. LIKE the low murmur of the secret stream, Which through...shaded way, My suppliant voice is heard : Ah ! do not deem That on vain toys I throw mine hours away. In the recesses of the forest vale, On the wild mountain,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 714 Seiten
...with religious truth who could produce such poetry as this : — " Like the low murmur of the forest stream , Which through dark alders winds its shaded way, My suppliant voice is heard ; ah, do not deem, That in vain toys I throw my hours away 1 « In the recesses of the forest vale, On the wild... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1849 - 540 Seiten
...understand his pictures !'"* But he could also write thus : — " Like the low murmur of the forest stream, Which through dark alders winds its shaded way, My suppliant voice is heard : ah, do not deem That in vain toys I throw my hours away ! " In the recesses of the forest vale, On the wild mountains... | |
 | W. Daniell - 1850 - 408 Seiten
...acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.' — PROV. iii. 6. " M 3 A PRAYER BY W. BECKFORD, ESQ. LIKE the low murmur of the secret stream, Which through...shaded way, My suppliant voice is heard: Ah ! do not deem That in vain toys I throw my hours away. In the recesses of the forest vale — On the wild mountain... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1853 - 422 Seiten
...aloft, — a stranger to our sphere! * I ought not, in justice, to allow the portrait of a Gourmet to he received as a likeness of this remarkable man, a short...aspirations. Like the low murmur of the secret stream, Whicli through dank alders winds its shaded way, My suppliant voice is heard : ah ! do not dream That... | |
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LIKE the low murmur of the secret stream, Which, through dark alders, winds its shaded way, My suppliant voice is heard : — Ah ! do not deem That on vain toys I throw my hours away. In the recesses of the forest vale, — On the wild mountain, — on... 
