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" Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. "
Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History - Page 129
by Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pages
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 98

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...mellow moons and happy skiee. Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise, — Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. " The Marquesas ! what strange visions of outlandish things," exclaims Tommo himself, " docs the very...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volumes 22-23

1857 - 834 pages
...HER gentleman, and Monarclis must give place." MT 51 Dan in " Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hanga the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea." IT was a bright sunny afternoon, in the month of February. We had been all the morning running down...
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Cambridge Essays, Volume 1

1856 - 416 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. But the deeper nature of the man controls the delusion of the fancy; his heart, reason, and conscience...
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Essays

George Brimley - 1858 - 376 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. But the deeper nature of the man controls the delusion of the fancy ; his heart, reason, and conscience...
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Cambridge Essays, 1855-58

1855 - 338 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. But the deeper nature of the man controls the delusion of the fancy; his heart, reason, and conscience...
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The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1859 - 690 pages
...musty College, thank heaven ; Emigration's the thing for me. Hurrah for New Zealand and the Bush!" " ' There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind' — " " Oh ! if you're going to do Locksley Hall, I'm off to calling-over, and perhaps your majesty...
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The odes of Horace, tr. into Engl. verse, with a life and notes, by T. Martin

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pages
...floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag. • Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...Isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. EPODE XVII. PAGE 245. Reverse thy whirling wheel amain. WHEEL appears to have been turned by the witches...
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The Odes of Horace: Translated Into English Verse with a Life and Notes

Horace - 1861 - 372 pages
...floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag. Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited...isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. EPODE XVn. p. 271. Reverse thy whirling wheel amain. A wheel appears to have been turned by the witches...
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New Zealand, the "Britain of the South:": With a Chapter on the Native War ...

Charles Hursthouse - 1861 - 564 pages
...principal Colonies ought to send Members to Westminster. I hold that each great Colony is as much a * " There, methinks, would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind. In tin- steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions, cramp'd no...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc: Complete in Two ...

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway,...
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