 But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear,...  The Works of Walter Savage Landor - Page 489by Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 675 pagesFull view - About this book
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...that luftre have imbibed In the fun's palace porch ; where, when unyoked, His chariot wheel {lands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens ; then apply Its polilhed lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its auguft abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs... | |
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...His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens — then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." * Strange as it may seem, the zoologist finds the sea more fertile in living forms than the land. Homer... | |
 | England - 1843 - 844 pages
...Landor (reads.) — " But I have sinnous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imhihed In the sun's palace-porch, where, when unyoked, His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave. * The lines within inverted commas, are Mr Lander's, without alteration. f Mr Lander's printed complaint,... | |
 | England - 1835 - 866 pages
...and they that lustre have imbibed In the »un'« palace porch; where, when unyoked. His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave, Shake one, and it awakens ; then apply Its polished lips to ynur attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes. And murmurl ai the ocean murmurs... | |
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...slumber, to speak with miraculous organ, like tho shell which has only to be lifted, and " pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there" — their power, so silent and sublime, of drawing tears, kindling blushes, awakening laughter, calming... | |
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...they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch — where, when unyoked, His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. — Shake one, and it awakens — then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And And it remembers its august abodes, ' And murmurs as the ocean... | |
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...they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch — where, when unyoked, His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. — Shake one, and it awakens — then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And And it remembers its august abode*, And murmurs as the ocean... | |
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...EXCURSION, p. 191. But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the Sun's palace-porch, where, when unyoked, His...in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens ; then apply We, who love order, yield our betters place With duteous zeal, and, if we can, with grace. Roderick,... | |
 | 1837 - 612 pages
...singular coincidence with a passage in The Excursion : — ' And I have sinuous shells of pearly hue ; — Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips...august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' The passage from ' The Excursion ' is this — ' I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract... | |
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...The Excursion : — ' And I have sinuous shells of pearly hue ; — Shake one and it awakens, thru apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And...august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' The passage from ' The Excursion ' is this — ' I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract... | |
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