 The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems,...  The Bombay University Calendar - Side 200av University of Bombay - 1907Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 446 sider
...description of the tropical island on which the sailor is thrown, is an absolute model of adorned art : — "The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
 | 1864 - 554 sider
...done, and we shall quote it, with the premise that it is not quite so good as Robinson Crusoe : — "The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land; the glows And glories of the... | |
 | 1864 - 546 sider
...hateful to the lonely castaway, almost bewildering the imagination with its rich magnificence :— \ " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 200 sider
...fashion, fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning ' wait.' The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
 | 1864 - 496 sider
...leave him alone in the solitary tropic isle whose scenery is thus finely described by the poet — " The mountain, wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of bisect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and... | |
 | 1864 - 744 sider
...to the lonely cast« away, almost bewildering the imagination with its rich magnificence : — " Thn mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The »lender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, ' The lustre of... | |
 | 1864 - 560 sider
...hateful to the lonely castaway, almost bewildering the imagination with its rich magnificence : — " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, Tbe slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre... | |
 | 1864 - 808 sider
...the beauteous hateful isle," which holds the humble Ulysses of the tale so long a prisoner : — " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, Tbo lightning- Sash of insect and of bird, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 sider
...Arden on his solitary island also very aptly illustrates and proves the truth of the above remark :— The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 sider
...Arden on his solitary island also very aptly illustrates and proves the truth of the above remark : — The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
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