| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round ; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where...the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But, O, that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where...many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancicnt as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,...the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But O! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. [slanted But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 464 pages
...to a sunless sea. So twice five inches of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round ; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery ."3 The principal palace of the Great Khan was situated, however, at Cambaluc (the modern Peking),... | |
| Mary Rosa Stuart Kettle - 1880 - 426 pages
...sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed...as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery." COLERIDGE. ADMIRAL CHESTERFIELD did not allow many days to pass, before he reminded Beatrice of her... | |
| Harry Willard French - 1880 - 384 pages
...of fertile ground With walks and trees were girded round; And here were gardens, bright with summer rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;...as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery." That description by Coleridge is too perfect to venture another in its place. Now the riders were lost... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 488 pages
...five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And here were gardens hright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incensebearing...tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Infolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart... | |
| George Henry Calvert - 1880 - 316 pages
...sudden heightening of effect by the introduction of humanity into a scene of purely terrene features : " But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover I A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted " These lines could... | |
| 1925 - 702 pages
...sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And there were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh, that deep, romantic... | |
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