 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pàgines
...the heaven'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... | |
 | 1855 - 602 pàgines
...principally of wood. Milton has described it in a couplet sonorous and musica as the bell itself : " On a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Or-er some iride-watered shore. Swinging slow, with solemn roar." It is an instance of the tenacity... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...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 removed2... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 pàgines
...Heav'n's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. 31 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... | |
 | Alfred Gatty - 1848 - 144 pàgines
...he was keeper of the forest there, and the river, often much swollen in winter, intervened : — " On a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar." The curfew bell at Carfax was instituted, says... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pàgines
...little differently. In the line " Tumbling all precipitate down dash'd," already quoted from the Ruins of Rome, there is an attempt to imitate the motion...both : " Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-oil' curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar."* Another very... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pàgines
...the heav'ns' wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermon wide-wnter'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed... | |
 | 1903 - 666 pàgines
...this great bell was last rung, or whether it was ever rung. As Milton says in ' II Penseroso ' :— 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. Thomas Hearne in his 'Diary' under date 28 September,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pàgines
...the heaven'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... | |
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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... 
