 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 658 sivua
...circumstances in descriptive writing. Take, for instance, the following passage from the Penseroso : 1 walk unseen On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold...her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Ofl, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sivua
...night, While Cynthia^checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the "accustomed oak: Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...heaven's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sivua
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,...noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heavens' wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 sivua
...the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon : Like ene that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide...Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar ; What may be beyond his... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 sivua
...Penseroso : -I walk unseen On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Killing' near her highest noon : Like one that had been led...Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar ; Or, if the air will not... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 sivua
...considered as inimitably fine poems. Take, for instance, the following passage from the Penseroso : -I walk unseen On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To...Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curlew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar ; I What may be beyond his... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 sivua
...And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure : But, first and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing...Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off Curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or, if the air will not... | |
 | 1840 - 880 sivua
...was pursuing, and in need of a guide to lead her along the sea-like sameness of the untrodden sky ? " I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold...Heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud." May we not readily, too, assimilate the course that she thus... | |
 | 1840 - 1522 sivua
...was pursuing, and in need of a guide to lead her along the sea-like sameness of the untrodden sky ? " I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold...astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way; And ofc, ai if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud." May we not readily, too, assimilate... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 sivua
...And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing,...Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or, if the air will not... | |
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Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold... 
