 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...my head ; While stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead, and over wood,' From house to house, unding ly sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where 1 lay, And viatoes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...From house to house, from hill to hill, Till eontemplation had her (ill. About his ehequer'd sides etly sing ; No song, but did eontain a lovely dit : Trees, branehes, birds, and songs, w vistas shooting beams of day ; Wide and wider spreads the vale ; As eireles on a smooth eanal : The... | |
 | 1805 - 554 pages
...of a ill), Sat upon a flow'ry lied, With my hand beneath my head, While Hray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From houfe to houfe, from hill te hill, ' IV; Contemplation had her fill. The improvements here do not appear very obvious. I rather... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had her fill. About his checkered sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : Tin'... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...beneath my head ; While stray 'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...From -house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her fill. About his checker'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves and grottoes where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her fill. About his chequered sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves and grottoes, where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day. Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on2 a smooth canal : The... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had her fill. About his chequered sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottos where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day: Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her fill. About his chequered sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day: Wide aud wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains... | |
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Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal ; The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies... 
