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...lingered long and lovingly upon our woody promontory, our eyrie among the spruces of Cape Bruton. ' CLEAE, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.' But the mail-coach must move on ; the spirit of the age is progress ; life is only a pied jockey on...

...was a true and beautiful flow of poetic inspiration, as in that tranquil passage in Childe Harold : "Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake With the...thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Karth's tronbled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...

...As rose the Muezzin's1 voice in air In midnight call to wonted prayer. A CALM NIGHT AT LAKE GENEVA. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stilluess, to forsake Earth's trouhled waters for a purer spring. This quict sail is as a noiseless...

...of the lake in a " calm : " "Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness,...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." Then his spirited picture of a " storm : " " Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between Heights,...

...long and lovingly upon our woody promontory, onr i-yrio among the spruces of Cape Breton. ' CI.KAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, • With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, wilh its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spriog.' But the mail-coach must...

...passages of the " Childe Harold " are those in which nature had her will with this wayward child : — " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, ia a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring....

...earth, the waters, and the sky! ,Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...spring: This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To hear me from destruction.' But hush', the shadows of evening fall over the scene. ' All' heaven and...

...verse in our modern literature. ^ CHAPTER II. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me with its...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. CHILDE HAKOLD, SHORTLY after I went to Geneva. In the largest country-house (Plangeau) near that city...

...came, it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. Soo This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar,...