 | George Campbell - 1854 - 456 páginas
...little differently. In tho line " Tumbling all precipitate down dash'd," already quoted from the Ruins of Rome, there is an attempt to imitate the motion...sound. The last of the four following lines from Milton contairfs also a tolerable imitation of both : " Oft on a plat of rising ground 1 hear the far-off... | |
 | R. W. Vanderkiste - 1854 - 350 páginas
...should we think of the curfew, summoning us to extinguish fire and light at eight in the evening ? " Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar." Milton's H Penseroso. The following is from Arnold's... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 páginas
...the heav'n's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still, removed... | |
 | 1854 - 456 páginas
...the heaven's wide, pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-ofF curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, IL PENSEROSO. Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 568 páginas
...principally of wood. Milton has described it in a couplet sonorous and musical as the bell itself:— ' On a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off' curfew sound, Over some wide-watered sftore, Swinging slow, with solemn roar.' It is an instance of the tenacity with which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 568 páginas
...principally of wood. Milton has described it in a couplet sonorous and musical as the bell itself: — • On a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered s/tore, Swinging slow, with solemn roar.' It is an instance of the tenacity with which... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 páginas
...the heaven's wide, pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide- watered shore, IL PENSEROSO. Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where... | |
 | 1855 - 458 páginas
...the heaven's wide, path.ess way ; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-ofF curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 páginas
...the Heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed... | |
 | 1855 - 540 páginas
...bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation ; Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed... | |
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Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit... 
