In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred River, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. Temple Bar - Page 528edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
| Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pages
...in old Purchas that Coleridge fell asleep, and dreamt the dream of Kublai's Paradise, beginning : " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred River, ran, By caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls... | |
| Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth - 1876 - 800 pages
...that Coleridge fell asleep and dreamt the dream of Khubilai's paradise beginning. In Xanadu did Kbubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river ran, By caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walis... | |
| Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 pages
...lines of three accents. It is used with great power by Coleridge in his fragment of "KublaKhan." " In Xanadu' did Ku'bla Khan' A stately plea'sure dome' decree', "Where Alph', the sa'cred riv'er, ran' Thro' cav'erns mea'sureless' to man', Down to' a sunless sea'. So twice' five miles' of fertile ground',... | |
| 1925 - 702 pages
...will consider Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" as an exemplification of the theories of the second school. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree; Where Alph, the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
| 1880 - 644 pages
...Khan," both of which were composed in a dream. The opening lines of the latter are as follows : — " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran. Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." So vivid and ingenious is this imaginative... | |
| 1880 - 488 pages
...were composed in a dream. The opening lines of the latter are as follows : — "In Xanndu did Kubln Khan A stately pleasure dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran. Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." So vivid and ingenious is this imaginative... | |
| 1886 - 894 pages
...to those who have seen him recently to have outgrown and conquered old age itself ; and the very * In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree. Where Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. \ In conversation with a Bavarian diplomatist... | |
| 1889 - 616 pages
...preserved." This subterranean lake will, doubtless, recall to the reader Coleridge's dream of where In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. The city of Chung-King, at the upper end... | |
| 1912 - 718 pages
...structure like the "stately pleasure dome" of Kublai Khan imagined by Coleridge in his poem "Cambaluc": ""In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree ; Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. •"So twice five miles of fertile ground... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 pages
...a stream into which * stone had been oast, but, alas I without the after restoration of the latter. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man » Down to a »unless sea, So twice five mile* of fertile ground... | |
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