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 129by Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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