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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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Virgil, Volume 7

William Lucas Collins - 1877 - 424 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." To the same class of Horace's early poems, though probably a few years later in date, belongs the following...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 143

1877 - 630 pages
...fortunes to make, or are tired of our humdrum commonplace life, should start at once for California. ' There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind.' The moral atmosphere, as the Baron found it, is like the air you breathe, and acts upon body and soul...
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Poems of Imagination and Fancy

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 262 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...would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, There the passions, cramj ed no longer, shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take some savage...
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The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science: With ..., Volume 8

1878 - 540 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag : Droops the heavy- blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea." • Rosser and Iraray's " Sailing Directions." Many years ago* the Honourable East-India Company formed...
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The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

1879 - 524 pages
...floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the erag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...dark-purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be en jovment more than in this march of mind, ln the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that...
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Belgravia, Volume 39

1879 - 562 pages
...an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous -woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Drops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. Well, if this picture is true anywhere, it is true in Jamaica, in Ceylon, in the Malay Archipelago....
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The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson. [Vol.8,9 are of the 1878 ed. With ...

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 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 tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark -purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be enjoyment'more than in this march of mind, In...
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The New Zealand Handbook: (fourteenth Edition) with Practical Information ...

1879 - 198 pages
...of cities, could realise the Tennysonian dream expressed in the following well-known lines : — " There, methinks, would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steam ship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind ; There, the passions cramped no longer...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...flag,Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag, — Droops the heavy-blossomed land ne'er mourn for me, Nor more esteem me, Victor lie enjoyment more than in this mardi of mind — In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts...
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History of the Zulu War

Alexander Wilmot - 1880 - 284 pages
...an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag. ****** There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind. ****** The passions cramped no longer shall have scope and breathing-space." Savage women shall be...
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