He told of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head! The cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 2621819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1851 - 704 páginas
...southward, the breadth of the lake expands rapidly, and the surface of the water is studded with " All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds." * It was In Qlen Fniiii, or the Qlen of Sorrow, that the celebrated battle took place between the Macgregors... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 384 páginas
...from Georgia's shore ; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes — ' With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds ' — yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 386 páginas
...from Georgia's shore ; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes — ' With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds ' — yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 páginas
...her spire; Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many...together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening-clouds. And then he said: How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade,... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 462 páginas
...local habitation. Wonder not that Scott has inwoven such a rich and weird web of romance around All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie. As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. Well have the people of Edinburgh erected the Gothic monument to Scott — rising so solidly , yet... | |
| Black Adam and Charles, ltd - 1853 - 168 páginas
...present an admirable outline, and the whole length of the lake stretches out before the spectator, " with all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds." * The whole valley of Grasmere, in fact, teems with memorials of Wordsworth.... | |
| Philip Pendleton Kennedy - 1853 - 256 páginas
...recompensed even the laurel, so exquisite was the rest, and so gorgeous the bower where we took it! "And then he said, 'How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter here, A gardener in the shade, Still wand'ring with an easy mind To build a household fire, and find... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 páginas
...scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannas spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. " How pleasant," then he said, " it were, A fisher or a hunter there, In sunshine or in shade To wander... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 364 páginas
...expectations, upon Georgia's shore; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes, " With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds," yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
| 1856 - 580 páginas
...scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannas spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.' Of his feminine tenderness of feeling, the fine pastoral of ' Michael ' is an example. Space forbids... | |
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