 | Walter Savage Landor - 1858 - 280 pages
...France to Italy my steps I bent And pitcht at Arno's side my household tent. Six years the Medicsean palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield,...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight,* But ever playing... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 618 pages
...France to Italy my steps I bent, And pitcht at Arno'a side my household tent. Six years the Medicxan palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield,...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 716 pages
...ray steps I bent. And pitcht at Amo's side my household tent. Six years the Medicœan palnce held Mv wandering Lares; then they went afield, Where the...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrieo unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 454 pages
...and Vallombrosa. " — Persia's Life of Landor. Landor wrote himself of his Florentine homes : — " From France to Italy my steps I bent, And pitcht at...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 458 pages
...wrote himself of his Florentine homes : — " From France to Italy my steps I bent. And pitcht at Amo's side my household tent. Six years the Medicean palace...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 585 pages
...France to Italy my steps I bent, And pitcht at Arno's side my household tent. Six years the Medieaean palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield,...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - 1884 - 250 pages
...Vallombrosa. ' — Forster's 'Life of Landor.' Landor wrote himself of his Florentine homes : — ' From France to Italy my steps I bent, And pitcht at...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 424 pages
...Vallombrosa. ' — • Forstcr's '•Life of Landor.' Landor wrote himself of his Florentine homes : — ' From France to Italy my steps I bent, And pitcht at...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in... | |
 | 1890 - 438 pages
...watersprings. From England to France, and then — " From France to Italy my steps I bent, And pitched at Arno's side my household tent. Six years the Medicean...impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend." But not even amidst the flowers of Fiesole was the longed-for quiet to be found. Only when the hand... | |
 | Margaret Stokes - 1892 - 348 pages
...gagias, and mimosas, in great quantities. Landor describes his farm in the following lines : — " Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight ; But ever playing... | |
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O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of polisht stone, and willing to be led Where clustering vines protect him from the sun... 
