| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1857 - 628 pages
...then enshrined in manuscript from eyes profane, and gave a bewitching effect to its wizard lines Hut more peculiar in its beauty than this was his recitation...on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mont Abora ' a* his voice seemed to mount and melt into air as the images grew more visionary, and the suggested... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abors, Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 426 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora, Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me... | |
| William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...Kubla Khan; or a Vision in a Dream"—composed (he averred) in sleep — has the following lines :— "A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, _ And on a dulcimer she played, and water—(it appears in the hand of a plebeian—body unknown—... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount A bora . Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...Khan, as beginning with an exquisite niece of music, and ending with a most poetical phantasm : — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
| William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 802 pages
...surprise ; so I explained that I had been anxious to ascertain the truth of Coleridge's lines, — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw — It was her Abjssinian maid, And on a dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. The answer was satisfactory.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, That with music loud and long, I would... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer, In a vision once I saw :...It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
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