 | James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1793 - 412 pages
...voice so sweet attunes his soul to rest; So soft no pillow as his mother's breast ! — Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft influence on celestial Low'rs, The cherub, Innocence, with smile divine, Shuts his sweet wings, and sleeps on Beauty's ihrine.... | |
 | Anna Seward - Physicians - 1804 - 352 pages
...which has nourished him, there is the following allegoric simile, of no common elegance : Thus, charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft...Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on Beauty's shrine. The Ode to Morning, in Elfrida, contains a nearly resembling image ; thus, Away, ye Elves, away, Shrink... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1805 - 224 pages
...voice so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow as his mother's breast ! — Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft...Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on beauty's shrine. HERCULES AND ACHELOUS. THUS when young Hercules, with firm disdain, Braved the soft smiles of pleasure's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...voice so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow, as his mother's breast ! — Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft...Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on Beauty's shrine. MIDNIGHT CONFLAGRATION, CATASTROPHE OF THB FAMILIES OF WOODMASON AND MOLESWORTH. FROM THE SAME. FROM... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow, as his mother's breast ! — — Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft...Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on beauty's shrine. XL " From dome to dome when flames infuriate climb, Sweep the long street, invest the tower sublime... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1826 - 878 pages
...and find what had been the source of happiness on earth — the richest pearl of heaven — " Till charmed to sweet repose when twilight hours Shed their...influence on celestial bowers, The cherub innocence, with smiles divine, Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on beauty's shrine." 0, the seductive villain ! Such... | |
 | 1839 - 550 pages
...the same." Or take his exquisite and statuesque description of a mother suckling her infant :— " Thus charmed to sweet repose when twilight hours Shed...bowers, The cherub Innocence, with smile divine, Shuts her white wings, and sleeps on Beauty's shrine." Southey once expressed a desire to see the Phoenix... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...No voice so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow as his mother's breast. Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft...Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on beauty's shrine. 3 A life which had been so blameless and so blessed, that only such a death could crown it, by proving... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow as his mother's breast ! — — Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft...Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on Beauty's shrine. LOVE RIDING ON THE LION. So playful Love on Ida's flowery sides With ribbon-rein the indignant lion... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 426 pages
...so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow as his mother's breast ! — — Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft...with smile divine, Shuts his white wings, and sleeps ou Beauty's shriiu'. LOVE HIDING ON THE LION. So playful Love on Ida's flowery sides With ribbon-rein... | |
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And many a tear the tassell'd cushion stains ! No voice so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow as his mother's breast ! — . Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft influence on celestial bowers, The cherub Innocence,... 
