 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 524 pages
...FOUND AMONG TUB PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDIUCI1 KNICKERBOCKER. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. ! N the bosom of one... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt - 1868 - 394 pages
...saint, of ladies dancing in their bowers, or of knights justling in their tournaments, rather than of " Gay castles in the clouds that pass For ever flushing round a summer sky," of giants and wizards, of fairies and of ghosts. To this, indeed, there are exceptions... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1869 - 568 pages
...described : — " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half -shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer's day." They have performed so many journeys, and made so many discoveries, and won so many laurels in... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1872 - 246 pages
...III. WRECK ASHORE 36 3* 57 66 93 107 I2X 130 '39 '47 155 163 173 180 9OO 913 AN OLD NEST. CHAPTER I. A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was, Of dreams that...castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round the summer sky ; There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883 - 452 pages
...foreigner's lip curl, and every decent Englishman's heart bleed. ACHESPE. tttnber tbe (3reenwoo& TTree. "A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." I REMEMBER in my boyhood that one of the only secular books not interdicted in our family... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...where this valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. VI. .A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was ; Of dreams...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. VI A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye,...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer-sky : There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...good. Line 114. Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise. Line 1 18. A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...where 'this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. 6 A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was, Of dreams that...in the clouds that pass; For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights that wi tellingly Instil a Canton sweetness through the breast;... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Line 114. Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise. Line 1 1 8. A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
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A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky... 
