| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 pages
...unfrequently, too, attended by a leader, larger than the rest: and, after moving, for a long time, • to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. They appear to an odd number of persons, rather than to an even one. Sometimes they carry human skulls... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phœbus dips his wain, future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demandin Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound ! Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all the widely-silent... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...senses plain,) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean 1'hcebui di]» hii wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. Cattle of Indatnce. MADAME CHERON'S avarice at length yielded to her vanity. Some very splendid entertainments... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 pages
...our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rous show." CASTLE OP INDOLENCE, Stan. xxx. b. 1.' I cannot at present recollect any solitude so romantic,' or... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 428 pages
...our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rous show." CASTLE OF INDOLENCE, Stan. xxx. b. 1. I cannot at present recollect any solitude so romantic, or peopled... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...our senses plain,) Sees, Ob the naked hill or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro ; Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous shew.'* It affords one among many other happy instances, in which the author has made the local superstitions... | |
| William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - 1824 - 102 pages
...senses plain,) Sees on some naked hill, or valley low, What time in ocean Phcebus dips his wain, Some vast assembly moving to and fro : — Then, all at once, in air dissolves the wondrous shew. Castle of Indolence. 28 XI. VITA FUGAX. tjUALIS ubi Hebudiae pastor de vertice rupis, Quae longe... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro ; Then all at onee in air dissolves the wondrous show. ad pleas'd me before ; But now they are past, and I sigh ; And I grieve eastle sways, And all the widely-sih-nt plaees round, Forgive me, if my trembling pen displays What... | |
| James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rons show. Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound! Whose soft dominion o'er this Castle SWIM*.... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 836 pages
...rolhce, who often, as she exclaimed Lndc>vico, sighed, and threw up her eyes la heaven. CHAP. XLJV. " he intrigues of public affairs. But St. Aubcrt had too niée a sense of honour sw:i\s. And all the widely-silent places mum!. Forgive me, if my trembling pen displays What never... | |
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