| Edwin Waugh - Cumbria (England) - 1880 - 80 pages
...peeps of gleaming beauty, along the vale, between me and the fir-clad mountains on the opposite side, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds. And now, here let me linger for a little while. The hotels of Windermere... | |
| Avary W. Holmes-Forbes - 1881 - 268 pages
...landscape in the Far West, speaks of scarlet flowers that " seem to set the hills on fire" and of " many an endless, endless lake, with all its fairy...quietly as spots of sky among the evening clouds" What more admired passage of physical phenomena suggesting physical phenomena can be found than that... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - England - 1881 - 852 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.... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of gieen M) clonds. " How pleasant," then he said, "it were A fisher or a hunter there, In sunshine or in shade... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1901 - 286 pages
...flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem 65 To set the hills on fire. ^ The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie 70 As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. ' How pleasant,' then he said, ' it were A... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 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 To wander... | |
| John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - English language - 1902 - 460 pages
...verse of three iambs ; another couplet; a verse of three iambs. x /Ix / I x / I x / x f I x / I x / The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. WORDSWORTH, "Ruth," stanza 12. 15. Six-line stanza of decasyllabic iambic verses, the first four rhyming... | |
| Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1902 - 460 pages
...verse of three iambs ; another couplet ; a verse of three iambs. x / \ x / I x / I x / X / \ X / IX / The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. WORDSWORTH, " Ruth," stanza 12. 15. Six-line stanza of decasyllabic iambic verses, the first four rhyming... | |
| John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - English language - 1902 - 462 pages
...verse of three iambs ; another couplet ; a verse of three iambs. x / I x / ! x / lx / x / I x / \y. / The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. . WORDSWORTH, " Ruth," stanza 12. 15. Six-line stanza of decasyllabic iambic verses, the first four... | |
| Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1902 - 460 pages
...octosyllabic couplets; a verse of three iambs ; another couplet; a verse of three iambs. x / I x / \ x / \ x / The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake X / IX / IX / With all its fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among... | |
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