 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Europe - 1852 - 462 pages
...local habitation. Wonder not that Scott has inwoven such a rich and weird web of romance around All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie. As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. Well have the people of Edinburgh erected the Gothic monument to Scott — rising so solidly , yet... | |
 | Black Adam and Charles, ltd - Lake District (England) - 1853 - 168 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.... | |
 | Philip Pendleton Kennedy - Blackwater River (W. Va.) - 1853 - 256 pages
...recompensed even the laurel, so exquisite was the rest, and so gorgeous the bower where we took it! "And then he said, 'How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter here, A gardener in the shade, Still wand'ring with an easy mind To build a household fire, and find... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannas spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all...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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 364 pages
...expectations, upon Georgia's shore; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes, " With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds," yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1856 - 538 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 an endless,...an easy mind, To build a household fire, and find What days and what sweet years! Ah me; Our life were life indeed, with thee So passed in quiet bliss,... | |
 | 1856 - 580 pages
...scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannas spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.' Of his feminine tenderness of feeling, the fine pastoral of ' Michael ' is an example. Space forbids... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...a perfect ground ;" or Gordale Scar. It is not far from Bolton to Kendal, and to Windermere. " The Lake, With all its fairy crowds Of Islands that together lie, As quutly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds." The river Duddon, will, as long as our Literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 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 an endless,...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 t To wander... | |
 | John Askew - Australia - 1857 - 488 pages
...the hills beyond. No scenery could be more enchanting than that presented by this picturesque cluster of islands "That together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds." We sailed past the headland, till we came opposite the city. All the side of the promontory within... | |
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The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. 
