 | Edward Hayes - Ballads, English - 1856 - 396 pages
...Providence's sway. His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenor of his soul is lost: So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colors... | |
 | Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 pages
...Providence's sway. His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenor of his soul is lost : So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the batiks, the trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colours... | |
 | Edward Hayes - Ballads, Irish - 1857 - 456 pages
...tenor of his soul is lost : So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow,...answering colours glow : But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...Providence's sway , His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenor of his soul is lost. So when a smooth expanse receives, imprest Calm Nature's...trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colors glow: But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side ; And... | |
 | 1863 - 744 pages
...the phantom, and by which their path now led them — "You remember Par nell's pretty image 1 — ' So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...answering colours glow ; But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun,... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost : So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...answering colours glow ; But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun,... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...the phantom, and by which their path now led them — " You remember Parnell's pretty image? — 'S» when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...its watery breast, Down bend the banks, the trees dejiending grow, And skies beneath with answering colours glow ; Hut if a stone the gentle scene divide,... | |
 | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Inheritance and succession - 1865 - 490 pages
...seen the phantom, and by which their path now led them — " You remember Parnell's pretty image ? So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colors glow ; But if a stone the gen tie scene divide. Swift raffling circles curl on every side, And... | |
 | Thomas Parnell - 1866 - 358 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...answering colours glow : But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffing circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks,... | |
 | Thomas Parnell - Irish poetry - 1866 - 324 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...answering colours glow : But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun,... | |
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Seem'd heaven itself, till one suggestion rose; That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey, This sprung some doubt of Providence's sway: His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. 
