 | George Gaskell - Algeria - 1875 - 368 pages
...our colourless clothes.6 CHAPTER V. NATIVE INHABITANTS— continued. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye,...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky ; But whate'er smacked of noyance or unrest Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was, Of dreams that...in the clouds that pass', For ever flushing round a summer-sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast... | |
 | George Etell Sargent - Sussex (England) - 1876 - 440 pages
...And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky: There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | Charles James Dunphie - Women - 1876 - 390 pages
...with milk and honey, the fairy-land of poetic thought ! — " A pleasing land of drowsyshed it is, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...in the clouds that pass. For ever flushing round a summer sky." Sir Walter Raleigh, indeed, affects to pooh-pooh such unsubstantial structures. " These... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...opening of the poem is both admirable Spenser and admirable "atmosphere": A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky: There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of Dreams that...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. . . . JAMES THOMSON. 470. "Aw ARE, AWAKE!" "I thank God for my happy dreams," wrote Sir... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - History - 1967 - 166 pages
...of trout-fishing and sheep-shearing in Springznd Summer, while an occasional magical phrase like : And of gay castles in the clouds that pass For ever flushing round a summer-sky brings to mind Lessing's remarks on the change of beauty into charm; 'Charm is beauty in... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...mood and movement: 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, For ever flushing round a summer sky. There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages
...DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. 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, For ever flushing round a summer sky. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE *The Works of Washington Irving. The Kinderhook Edition (New York:... | |
 | John Veitch - Nature in literature - 1887 - 388 pages
...And where this valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." On the walls of the castle : — " Sometimes the pencil, in cool airy halls, Bade the... | |
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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, For ever flushing round a summer sky... 
