I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons... The American Bibliopolist - Sivu 2891871Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 sivua
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the lides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 sivua
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands...their heads passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 372 sivua
...fruits and flowers , and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits , with garlands...heads , passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 sivua
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of tinging birds,... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 316 sivua
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon,...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or restingon beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
| Albert Picket - 1820 - 314 sivua
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delighful... | |
| 1822 - 788 sivua
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 sivua
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 sivua
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them, I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
| 1823 - 816 sivua
...and flowers, and bright with a thousand shining streams that flow between them. We see those persons in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and, like him, we wish for the wings of an eagle,... | |
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