 | 1854 - 402 pàgines
...— instead of rage , Breathing deliberate valor. IDLENESS. A PLEASING land of drowsy heads it wag, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing raund a summer's sky. JAMES MONTGOMERY, THE POET. BT THE EDITOR. " For ever with the Lord." This aged... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1855 - 156 pàgines
...Enchanted Lake, or Thomson claim it as the realization of his delicious Land of Drowsihead : — " Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky ; There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | 1923 - 748 pàgines
...below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of Dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. . . . JAMES THOMSON. 470. "Aw ARE, AWAKE!" "I thank God for my happy dreams," wrote Sir... | |
 | Fredericus Theodorus Visser - 2002 - 688 pàgines
...emptily and lovingly away together to the tavern. | 1748 James Thomson, Castle of Indolence VI, 5, the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast. | 1751 Smollett, Peregr. Pickle II, XVIII, he had never willingly and wittingly used any gentleman... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 pàgines
...of trout-fishing and sheep-shearing in Springznd Summer, while an occasional magical phrase like : And of gay castles in the clouds that pass For ever flushing round a summer-sky brings to mind Lessing's remarks on the change of beauty into charm; 'Charm is beauty in motion ...... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...mood and movement: A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was Of dreams that wave before the half -shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pàgines
...DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE *The Works of Washington Irving. The Kinderhook Edition (New York:... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pàgines
...(Found among the Papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker) A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky. Castle of Indolence IN THE BOSOM of one of those spacious coves... | |
 | John Veitch - 1887 - 388 pàgines
...below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." On the walls of the castle : — " Sometimes the pencil, in cool airy halls, Bade the... | |
 | Jay A. Gertzman - 1986 - 252 pàgines
...slumbrous influence kest [cast] FIOIU poppies breathed.... There eke the soft delights that wiuhingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast; and the calm pleasures always hover 'd nigh;. . . It is not the moral and social virtues of "merrie" England (magnanimous generosity,... | |
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A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky... 
