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" twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch... "
The Works of the English Poets: Thomson; Hammond; Collins - Page 320
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scene at distance hail; Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song; And, where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard...
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The Poetical Works of William Collins

William Collins - 1859 - 246 pages
...whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still, through all the song; 36 And,' where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was...
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The Poetical Works of William Collins

William Collins - 1859 - 236 pages
...promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolor%, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...whisper'd promised pleasure And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! Still would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale She call'd on Echo still through all the song; And, where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song ; And, where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the scene prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And, from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on ECHO still through all her song; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...her touch the strain prolong, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song; A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope enchanted smiled,...
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Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins

esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still, through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose A soft responsive voice was heard...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...'d promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard...
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