 | Conduct of life - 1854 - 402 pages
...— instead of rage , Breathing deliberate valor. IDLENESS. A PLEASING land of drowsy heads it wag, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing raund a summer's sky. JAMES MONTGOMERY, THE POET. BT THE EDITOR. " For ever with the Lord." This aged... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head1 it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye...clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer skv : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And... | |
 | James Thomson - 1857 - 314 pages
...where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. VI. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, \ Of dreams...half-shut! eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pas/, For ever flushing round a summer-sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...and hand ! IDLENESS. A pleasing land of drowsy heads it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shnt eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flashing round a summer's sky. GOLDEN PARABLES. FROM THE GERMAN, BY THE EDITOR. XVI. THE PRECIOUS HERB.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye : And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky ; There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Africa, Central - 1860 - 506 pages
...spectacle of this virgin Nature, and the reveries to which it gave birth. " A pleasing land of drowsihed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye,...that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." It reminded me of the loveliest glimpses of the Mediterranean ; there were the same " laughing tides,"... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Africa, Central - 1860 - 590 pages
...spectacle of this virgin Nature and the reveries to which it gave birth. " A pleasing land of drowsibed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky." It reminded me of the loveliest glimpses of the Mediterranean... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1860 - 478 pages
...KNICKEB. BOCKEB. A pleasing hmd of drowsy heart it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; Ami of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. CASTLS OF INDO TN the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent -*- the eastern shore of the... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...And where this valleywwraed out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard to flow. VI. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer-sky: CfcSTLE or INQQLENCE. Till clusierin|f round the enchanter false they him_ Ymohen »iih... | |
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A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky... 
