 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1855 - 106 psl.
...unyoked, 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." "Of pearly hue Many other uses of shells might be mentioned, to show that they perform an important... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 psl.
...His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one and it awakens ; then apply Its polished lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." Gebir, Book I. Midas. CHAPTER VI. MIDAS — BAUCIS AND PHILEMON. BACCHUS, on a certain occasion, found... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - 1856 - 296 psl.
...unyoked, 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. LASDOB. CONCHA VENEKIS. Where erst the sea-waves' gentle swell In murmurs met my ear, The sorrows of... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1856 - 344 psl.
...deep slumber, to speak with miraculous organ, like the shell which has only to be lifted, and "pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there" — their power of drawing tears, kindling blushes, awakening laughter, calming or quickening the motions... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 psl.
...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...august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. And I have others given me by the nymphs, Of sweeter sound than any pipe you have. But we, by Neptune... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 426 psl.
...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...attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, Aud murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. And I have others given me by the nymphs, Of sweeter sound... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1857 - 632 psl.
...application of those trumpets, or tin speaking-pipes, which are now commonly used "Apply The polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august...abodes, And murmurs, as the ocean murmurs there." for conveying intelligence from oue part of a house to another. The trumpet used by deaf persona acts... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 psl.
...unyoked, His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens ; then apply Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august...abodes, And murmurs, as the ocean murmurs there." I have spoken of the necessity of some element of difference in all the arts ; and before dismissing... | |
 | Sir Thomas Watson - 1857 - 998 psl.
...believe, to be the noise of the distant sea. Shake one, and it awakens ; then apply Its polished lipa to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmured there. Sometimes the sound is more like the hum of a gnat, or the sighing of the wind through... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 psl.
...univalve still recalls the poet's words : — " 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." Nor should it be overlooked that Wordsworth conveys the idea still more fully : — " I have seen A... | |
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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, And... 
