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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... "
Modern English Prose - Page 292
edited by - 1904 - 481 pages
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1

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...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems, and ran Even to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the...
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The Hibernian Magazine. ..., Issues 1-6

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...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 stately stems, and...
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The North British Review, Volumes 40-41

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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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 96

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 83

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...
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Enoch Arden

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1865 - 136 pages
...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...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems, and ran Even to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the...
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Enoch Arden

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1865 - 214 pages
...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...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 37 That coil'd...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volumes 31-32

1866 - 744 pages
...would have been gladdened by a sight that might have ravished eyes long used to Nature's beauty. He saw "The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately elms, and ran Ev n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the...
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Enoch Arden

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 166 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...and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses 37 That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories...
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Poems of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...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 glades high up like ways to heaven. The slender cocoa's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long...
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