| Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - English essays - 1864 - 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 could hear a confused harmony of singing-birds,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delightful... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 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 - 1866 - 446 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...upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down hy (he sides of fountains, or vesting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 442 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...garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying downhy the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 170 pages
...years in as many minutes. 9. They got him up to his room without help and laid him down on his bed. 10. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, resting on beds of flowers. 11. I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on those happy... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...The clouds still rested on one half of it, in so much 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,... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 102 pages
...years in as many minutes. 9. They got him up to his room without help and laid him down on his bed. 10. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, resting on beds of flowers. 11. I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on those happy... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 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 the fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - English language - 1895 - 268 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little 15 shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of the fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of sing-... | |
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