 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
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1770-1850. (Manual, pp. 420-424.) FROM "THE EXCURSION." 294, THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth, 1 who touched a golden lute, And filled th' illumined groves with ravishment. The nightly hunter, lifting... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...Wordsworth. 1770-1850. (History, pp. 235-238.) 206. From ' THE EXCURSION.' THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY. — 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1869 - 266 pages
...describing the religion of ancient Greece : — " In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth, who touched a golden lute, And... | |
 | Thomas Edward Bridgett - 1869 - 360 pages
...the Grecian herdsman who " Stretch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lull'd his indolent repose ; And in some fit of weariness,...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd Even from the blazing chariot of the sun A beardless youth, who touch'da golden lute, And fill'd... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...sea, air, with light, With pomp, with glory, with magnificence ! NATURE WORSHIPPED BY THE GREEKS. — 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,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 pages
...thoughts The face which rural solitude might wear To the unenlightened swains of pagan Greece. ; — In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless Touth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment. The nightly hunter,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 pages
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1770-1850. (Manual, pp. 420-424.) FROM "THE EXCURSION." 204. THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY. 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 th' illumined groves with ravishment. The nightly hunter,... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1870 - 676 pages
...clime the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass, through half a summer's day With music lull'd his indolent repose ; And, in some fit of weariness,...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd Even from the blazing chariot of the sun A beardless youth, who touched a golden lute, And... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1870 - 474 pages
...clime the lonely herdsman, strrtch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music loll'd his indolent repose: And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanecd to hear A distant strain, far swecter than the sounds Which his pour skill could make, his... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 592 pages
...passage, describing the religion of ancient Greece : " In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd, Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth, who touched a golden lute, And... | |
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