 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...description of the tropical island on which the sailor is thrown is an absolute model of adorned art : " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 1864 - 200 pages
...fashion, fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning ' wait.' The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1864 - 446 pages
...description of the tropical island on which the sailor is thrown, is an absolute model of adorned art : — "The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 546 pages
...hateful to the lonely castaway, almost bewildering the imagination with its rich magnificence :— \ " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 496 pages
...leave him alone in the solitary tropic isle whose scenery is thus finely described by the poet — " The mountain, wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of bisect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 554 pages
...done, and we shall quote it, with the premise that it is not quite so good as Robinson Crusoe : — "The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1864 - 244 pages
...glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All these he saw... | |
 | England - 1864 - 808 pages
...the beauteous hateful isle," which holds the humble Ulysses of the tale so long a prisoner : — " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, Tbo lightning- Sash of insect and of bird, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...to the lonely cast« away, almost bewildering the imagination with its rich magnificence : — " Thn mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The »lender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, ' The lustre of... | |
 | 1864 - 560 pages
...hateful to the lonely castaway, almost bewildering the imagination with its rich magnificence : — " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, Tbe slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre... | |
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The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems,... 
