 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1881 - 852 pages
...present an admirable outline, and the whole length of the lake stretches out before the spectator, " with all its fairy crowds Of Islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds." • The whole valley of Grasmere, in fact, teems with memorials of Wordsworth.... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of gieen M) clonds. " How pleasant," then he said, "it were A fisher or a hunter there, In sunshine or in shade... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 520 pages
...; — Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many...With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together \\6 As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. " How pleasant," then he said, "it were A... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pages
...spire; Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy erowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. '' How pleasant,"... | |
 | 1882 - 858 pages
...the word " gleam," which signifies something transient and fitful; while the following simile — " Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds," is peculiarly inapt, for the blue spaces of water between the islands would more properly be compared... | |
 | Robert Menzies Fergusson - 1883 - 196 pages
...out all view of the sea, save to the eastward, where a glimpse is visible, with Eagilsbay, Eday, And islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. Were it not for the dull roar of the Atlantic, heard over the Northern hills, one would scarcely think... | |
 | Robert Menzies Fergusson - 1883 - 198 pages
...out all view of the sea, save to the eastward, where a glimpse is visible, with Eagilshay, Eday, And islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. Were it not for the dull roar of the Atlantic, heard over the Northern hilla, one would scarcely think... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1884 - 862 pages
...knew, this might be that endless ' Loch Fada' of the island, the queen of its waters in loveliness : ' With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.* Beautiful, but a perfect labyrinth, with miles upon miles of indented shores. At last, to my great... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 pages
...; — Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green Savannahs spake, And many...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. "How pleasant," then he said, "it were A fisher or a hunter there, In sunshine or in shade, To wander... | |
 | 1895 - 1074 pages
...through a rush of quick water, boiling and foaming, now through a still place like a lake, now through Fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie, As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. The beauty of the shores was infinitely varied, and unspoiled by any sign of the presence of man. We... | |
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He told of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head! The cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,... 
