 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pàgines
...which it has furnished to our poets, than for any records or traditions resulting from the custom. On a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar. Longfellow has a brief suggestive poem on the curfew... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pàgines
...allusions which it has furnished to our poets, than for any record or traditions resulting from the custom. On a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over sonic wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar. Longfellow has a brief suggestive poem on... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 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, Oier some wide-watered shore. Swinging slow, with solemn mar." It is an instance of the tenacity with... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 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- watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar." How decide between this from Milton's Penseroso, and... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pàgines
...the heaven's wide, pathless way, And nit, as if her head »he bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with .sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pàgines
...the hcav'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... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Coxe - 1856 - 366 pàgines
...a summer evening, then, standing on this hill, you will get the meaning of Milton's lines: — " ' Oft, on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging stow, with sullen roar.'" To which I ventured to object, that although... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 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, ( 1) Spare Fait, that oft, <tc.— To imply that temperance Is favonrahle to poetical enthusiasm. (2)... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 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... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 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... 
