 For lo ! the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle clips her solid waist, Music and measure both doth understand; For his great crystal eye is always cast Up to the moon, and on her fixed fast; And as she danceth in her pallid sphere, So danceth...  The South Devon literary chronicle - Pàgina 2291847Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pàgines
...of the moon, and Uie passage is highly poetical in expression : For lo, the sea th?-t fleets abont the land, And like a girdle clips her solid waist....doth understand; For his great crystal eye is always CLSt "Up to the moon, and on her fix "d fast ; And i;a she dancd.h in her pa'.'id sphere So daiic-tu... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 342 pàgines
...were they? — Tli/ron. Ex. — For, lo! the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle clasps her solid waist, Music and measure both doth understand;...crystal eye is always cast Up to the moon, and on her fixeth fast; And as she in her pallid sphere, So danceth he about the center here. — Davis. 7. The... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 420 pàgines
...there was much more of the true imaginative light in Sir John Davis than in Michael Drayton. For lo, the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle...and on her fixed fast : And as she danceth in her palid sphere So dauceth he about the centre here. Davis. Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 422 pàgines
...there was much more of the true imaginative light in Sir John Davis than in Michael Drayton. For lo, the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle clips her solid waist, Music and meiisure both doth understand ; For his great crystal eye is always cast Up to the moon, and on her... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1883 - 662 pàgines
...the cold earth can ! " MAEtON L. PELTON. THE SEA. PR, lo ! the Sea that fleets about the land, \nd like a girdle clips her solid waist, Music and measure...pallid sphere, So danceth he about the centre here. Sometimes his proud green waves, in order set, One after other flow into the shore, Which when they... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pàgines
...intervals. It admits <>f varieties, according to the distribution of the five first rhymes. For, lo ! the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle...crystal eye is always cast Up to the moon, and on her fixeth fast ; And as she in her pallid sphere, So danceth he about the centre here. — Sir JOHN DAVIS.... | |
 | Frederick Gard Fleay - 1884 - 104 pàgines
...truce detained." Line formula, $xa ; stanza formula, AA. Rhyme Royal, or Chaucerians. ' ' For, lo, the sea, that fleets about the land, And like a girdle...crystal eye is always cast Up to the moon, and on her fixeth fast ; And as she danceth in the pallid sphere, So danceth he about the centre here." Formula,... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pàgines
...descry : But, for your eyes perceive not all they see, In this I will your senses' master be. For lo ! the Sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle...pallid sphere, So danceth he about the centre here. Sometimes his proud green waves in order set One after other flow unto the shore, Which when they have... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pàgines
...passage which contains a wonderful personification of the sea in its tidal relation to the moon : " Soe the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle clips her solid waist, Musicke and measure both doth understand ; For his great chrystall eye is always cast Up to the moone,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1892 - 668 pàgines
...Orchestra," a poem upon Dancing, — " For lo, the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle dips her solid waist, Music and measure both doth understand;...pallid sphere So danceth he about the centre here ; " — Thomas Hobbes, of whom Mackintosh says, " His style is the very perfection of didactic language... | |
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