 In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter...  English prose composition - Page 23by James Currie (A.M.) - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1859 - 338 pages
...the circumstances, it is no peculiarity. It has been common to all, from the Chaldean shepherds — "the lonely herdsman stretched on the soft grass through half a summer's day" — the solitary monk — to all whose impressions from without have had time to grow and vivify in... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...mind, is beautifully described by Wordsworth in the following lines. LESSON II. GRECIAN MYTHOLOGY. IN that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fctch'd Even from the blazing chariot of the sun A beardless... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...mind, is beautifully described by Wordsworth in the following lines. LESSON II. — GBKCIAJT MYTHOLOGY. IN that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fctch'd Even from the blazing chariot of the sun A beardless youth,* who touched a golden lute, And... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...Wordsworth. 1770-1850. (Manual, pp. 446-451.) 310. FROM ' THE EXCURSION.' THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY. — In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent ropose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake. THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY. From The Excursion. Book iv. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth,1 who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment. The nightly hunter,... | |
 | 1865 - 642 pages
...fully trusted. Who is ignorant of those deathless lines : — • In thai fair clime the lonely herdman stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's...hear A distant strain far sweeter than the sounds \Vbich his poor skill coald make, his fancy fetched E'en from the blazing chariot of the sun A beardless... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1865 - 816 pages
...lonely herdman stretched Oa the soft grass through half a summer's day. With music lulled hie indoleut repose: And in some fit of weariness if he, When his...Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetched t'en from the blazing chariot of the sun A beardless youth who touched a golden lyir. And filled the... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 170 pages
...Several of them, in the act of striking at the enemy. fell down from mere weakness. — Macaulay. 12. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose. — Wordsworth. 1. The Conjunction. 83. Conjunctions are of two classes : I. Subordinative. II. Co-ordinalive.... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1867 - 600 pages
...They may have been—fre1 The reader will perhaps be reminded of the beautiful lines of Wordsworth: "In that fair clime the lonely herdsman, stretched...soft grass, through half a summer's day With music lulPd his indolent repose; And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...rural solitude might wear To the unenlightened swains of pagan Greece. In that fair clime the lowly herdsman stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lull'd his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent,... | |
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