Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scattered at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs... The Convert - Pàgina 220per George Wilkins - 1826 - 444 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Robert Douglas - 1848 - 350 pàgines
...background. Shortly after passing this, the road ascended— —a gentle hill, Green, and of inild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge...living landscape, and the wave Of woods and corn-fields ; * * * ***** The hill Was crowned with a peculiar diadem Of trees, in circular array, so fixed, Not... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pàgines
...itself a thought, A slumbering thought, is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour. I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon...gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity, the last As 't were the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 394 pàgines
...Dream," and an exquisite picture given of himself, and the lovely object of his boyish idolatry— " I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a bill, a gentle hill, Green, and of mild declivity, the last As ' twere the cape of a long ridge of... | |
| Victor von Arentsschild - 1851 - 588 pàgines
...itself a thought:, A slumbering thought, is capable of years, And cardies a long life into one hour. 5. I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon...gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity, the last As Ч were the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pàgines
...his poem of the Dream, Byron has described in the most exquisite colours of descriptive poetry: — day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, юп of the winged daysî Oreen and of mild declivity, the l«»t As 'twere th« cape of a long ridge of such, uvre that there... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...itself a thought, A slumbering thought , is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour. I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon...hill, Green and of mild declivity , — the last As 't were the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living... | |
| George William Curtis - 1852 - 328 pàgines
...Cicerone. None other shows Nablous, as he. Sunken in lush foliage, it is a more Italian Sorrento ; " Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape." Seen from the mountain-side, its masses of broken walls, arches, minarets, domes, and gardens, swarming... | |
| Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 408 pàgines
...and where his youthful soul first felt how keen a sting was that of unrequited passion. It still was "Green and of mild declivity, the last, As 'twere...no sea to lave its base But a most living landscape " but the " trees of circular array" were gone, and the spot whereon the " youth and the maiden" once... | |
| 1853 - 352 pàgines
...this, the road ascended — — a gentle bill, Green, and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere ihe cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was...living landscape, and the wave Of woods and corn-fields ; * * * ***** The hill Was crowned with a peculiar diadem Of trees, in circular array, so fixed, Not... | |
| Sarah Marshall Hayden - 1854 - 300 pàgines
...she endeavored to mould every thought, feeling, taste and action in accordance with his. CHAPTER V. I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill. These two, a maiden and a youth, were there, Gazing — the one on all that was beneath, Pah- as herself—... | |
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