 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it : but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable...could see persons dressed in glorious habits with gar1 This stroke of ridicule is ill-placed in so serious a paper. lands upon their heads, passing among... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that 1 could discover nothing in it : but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of lountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing-birds,... | |
 | William Stones (travel writer.) - 1858 - 268 pages
...parts. The clouds still rested on one-half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it, but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable...thousand little shining seas that ran among them. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1860 - 368 pages
...parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean, planted with innumerable...thousand little shining seas, that ran among them. 15. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlaiids upon their heads, passing among... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and < ould hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 698 pages
...parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it : But the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable...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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 712 pages
...parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it : But the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable...persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon thiiir heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nolhing in it : But the othér appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable...thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could se« persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon théir héads, passing among the trees,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...of it, insomuch 1 that I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean 1 planted with innumerable islands, that were covered...flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas1 that ran among them. I could see persons1 dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmonv of singing birds,... | |
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I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could... 
