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" Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur... "
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 229
1831
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 20

Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1873 - 624 pages
...to this fact during his travels in Italy, in one of his poems : " Sometimes misguided by the tunefol throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That...lost in silence and oblivion lie, — Dumb are their fountain! and their channels dry." The ancient river Scamander which was navigable at the commencement...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...done well in people's eyes. SHAKSPEARE. RIVERS. Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look'd for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence...Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry, That run forever by the muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still. ADDISON. Here the...
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The poetical works of Joseph Addison: Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase ...

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 pages
...plenty where he flows. so Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalised in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still. Sometimes to gentle...
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Cities of Northern and Central Italy

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Cities and towns - 1876 - 556 pages
...temples bound, And her torn tresses rudely hung around." — Rout. " Sometimes misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That...(Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry), Yet run for ever by the muses' skill, And in the smooth description murmur still." Eustace. Equally...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...flows. Sum-unit."-, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortaliz'd in song, Thai drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of tha Vet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And m the smooth description murmur still. Sometimes to gentle...
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Poems of Places: Italy

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 302 pages
...whole winter's snows, Distributes wealth and plenty where he flows. Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That...(Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry), Yet run forever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still. Sometimes to gentle...
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Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners: Together ..., Volume 21

1877 - 678 pages
...glide. Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalised in song, That lost hi silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still. Sometimes to gentle...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...done well in people's eyes. SHAKSPEARE. RIVERS. Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look'd for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence...Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry, That run forever by the muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still. ADDISON. Here the...
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A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...plenty where he flows. Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalised in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muses' skill, And in the smooth description murmur still. Addison, Letter from...
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In the Emilia and Marche, and some towns in Umbria and the Campagna of Rome

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Cities and towns - 1884 - 484 pages
...streams in Italy will produce almost a shock — S. Maria Pomposa. ' Sometimes misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That...(Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry), Yet run for ever by the muses' skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.' — Eustace. 1 *...
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