 | Charles Alexander Johns - 1846 - 187 pages
...part of Loch Lomond, but allowing us a full view of . . . " All the fairy crowds Of islands, which together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds." To the right appeared another shoulder of Ben Voirlich, nearly equal in height with our position, and... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850
...scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannas spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.' Of his feminine tenderness of feeling, the fine pastoral of 'Michael 'is an example. Space forbids... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Travel - 1850 - 240 pages
...present an admirable outline, and the whole length of the lake stretches out before the spectator, - with all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds." majesty and grandeur. Bold or gentle promontories break all the banks... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Literary Criticism - 1851
...Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton...sister, and my sister's child, Mj«lf and children th .ч- spots of sky Among the evening clouds. ' How pleasant,' then he said, ' it A fisher or a hunter... | |
 | Black Adam and Charles, ltd - 1851
...southward, the breadth of the lake expands rapidly, and the surface of the water is studded with " All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds." * It was In Qlen Fniiii, or the Qlen of Sorrow, that the celebrated battle took place between the Macgregors... | |
 | THOMAS DE QUINCEY - 1851
...from Georgia's shore ; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes — ' With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds ' — yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
 | Thomas De Quincy - 1851
...from Georgia's shore ; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes — ' With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds ' — yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - Poetry - 1852 - 399 pages
...Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless...together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening-clouds. And then he said: How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade,... | |
 | SAMUEL S. COX - 1852
...local habitation. Wonder not that Scott has inwoven such a rich and weird web of romance around All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie. As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. Well have the people of Edinburgh erected the Gothic monument to Scott — rising so solidly , yet... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1853 - 77 pages
...present an admirable outline, and the whole length of the lake stretches out before the spectator, " with all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds." * The whole valley of Grasmere, in fact, teems with memorials of Wordsworth.... | |
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The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. 
