 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 634 pages
...colouring ol light draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hill-tops, the deep serene of the waters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till they nearly touched the hithe1most shore. At distance heard the murmur of many water-falls, not audible in the day-time. Wishid... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 pages
...criticism. I will add only two quotations to show that accidents will happen to the bestregulated poets: " At distance heard the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the daytime." (Gray to Wharton, 1769.) " A soft and lulling sound is heard Of streams inaudible by day." {Whiîe... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1891 - 128 pages
...The little rills, and waters numberless, Inaudible by daylight.' Also in Gray's Tour in the Lakes—' At distance heard the murmur of many waterfalls, not audible in the daytime.' 1. 158. The Craven district of Yorkshire is a limestone formation, where there are many caverns and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 208 pages
...will add only two quotations to show that accidents will happen to the best-regulated poets: — " At distance heard the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the day-time." — Gray to Wharton, 1769. " A soft and lulling sound is heard OI streams inaudible by day." — White... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1891 - 192 pages
...the similarity of language in the two poets. Writing of a walk to Crow Park, Gray's note is : — " At distance heard the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the day time." This re-appears in the White Doe : — " A soft and lulling sound is heard Of streams inaudible... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...coloring of light draw on. the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hill-tops, the deep serene of the the favorable circumstances in which they have been...their republican training and institutions. Their interlunar cave.—THOMAS GRAY. Cognate phrases are " to cast beyond the moon,"—1>., to make extravagant... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1892 - 272 pages
...colouring of light draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hill-tops, the deep serene of the waters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown...shore. At distance heard the murmur of many waterfalls, hot audible in the daytime. Wished for the Moon, but she was dark to me and silent, hid in her vacant... | |
 | Elfrida Mary Crowley - 1892 - 98 pages
...colouring of light draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hill-tops, the deep serene of the waters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them till they nearly touched the nethermost shore. At distance heard the murmur of many waters, not audible in the day-time." Is not... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 368 pages
...will add only two quotations to show that accidents will happen to the best-regulated poets : — " At distance heard the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the day-time." — Gray to Wharton, 1769. " A soft and lulling sound is heard Of streams inaudible by day." — White... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 pages
...colouring of night draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hill-tops, the deep serene of the waters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown...but she was dark to me and silent, hid in her vacant interlunar cave." 1 Mitford said : " No man was a greater admirer of nature than Mr. Gray, nor admired... | |
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In the evening walked down alone to the lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn colouring of light draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hilltops, the deep serene of the waters, and the long shadows of the mountains... 
