 Ye Elements ! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me such a being ! Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot.  Outlook and Independent - Page 4011924Full view - About this book
 | England - 1848 - 788 pages
...sea, joy almost as dear As if there were no man to trouble what is clear. VOL. LXIV NO. CCCXCVI. 2 K " Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, bating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements ! — in whose... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...poets, Byron alone has fitly sung the sea. Let us recite the celebrated close of Childe Harold. " Oh I that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race And, hating no one, love but only her I Ye Elements ! — in whose... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 pages
...eloquent :— " Oh ! that the Desart were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted—Can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...reap from earth, sea, joy almost as dear As if there were no man to trouble what is clear. CLXXVII. Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love buLonly her! Ye Elements! in whose ennobling... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...that day, all that night, the over-consciousness of thought sticking in us like pins and needles. " Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister." But ladies won't go into the desert even to spend the honey-moon ; and if the fair spirits won't go... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...countrywomen. Lord Byron has said, and often, in youthful reverie, had I echoed the wish : — " Would that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister !" And now I had grown to manhood, and in the wilds of fiery climes had made myself a home; but that... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...ne donnent qu'une foible idee Mad. de Staël. Ob that the desert were my dwel With one fair spiiil for my minister That 1 might all forget the human race And hating no one, lovebntonty l»er! Ye elements! — in whose ennobling star I feel myself exalted— can ve not Accord... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...bell-mouthed goblet makes me feel quite Danish Or Dutch with thirst — What ho ! a flask of Hhenish. OCEAN. Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements ! — in whose... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...earth, sea, joy almost as dear As if there were no man to trouble what is clear. CLXXVH. l)h! thai the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her! Ye elementsI-p-in whose ennobling... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...sun, And reap from earth, sea, joy almost as dear As if there were no man to trouble what is clear. ng shower, which 44 PILGRIMAGE. 45 IK Thiit I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her! Ye Elements! — in... | |
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