 | William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 326 pàgines
...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 shore, Swinging slow, with solemn roar. The manifold other purposes to which bells are... | |
 | George Campbell - 1859 - 460 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...following lines from Milton contains also a tolerable im itation of both : " Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 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. Swingeing slow with sullen roar." These, the nocturnal sights and sounds, it is... | |
 | George Campbell - 1860 - 458 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...following lines from Milton contains also a tolerable im itation of both : " Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pàgines
...Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flios o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. 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 : It Paueroso. The well-known hexameters... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pàgines
...moon Biding near her highest noon ; 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 solemn roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 pàgines
...the Heaven's wide pathless way; And oil, 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 sonic wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or, if the air will not permit, Some still... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1860 - 652 pàgines
...heaven's wiiie patlile» way, And oft, a» 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 sume wide watered shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pàgines
...the heaven's wide pathless way And oft, as if her head she bow'd, 71 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pàgines
...Heaven's wide pathless way ; 70 And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fIeecy 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 place... | |
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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... 
