 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...the white-wall'd distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down ; And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view...seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...white-wall'd distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down ; And then there was a little isle,« Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view ; perceive, in my voyage round and over the lake, within its circumference. It contains a fow trees... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...white-wall'd distant town, 340 And whiter sails go skimming down ; And then there was a little isle,* Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view ; A small green isle, it seem'd no more, 345 Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 532 pages
...poet or a philosopher. Here are the white walls of Chillon, here the one green island, "A little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view." Here Byron, broken down by "home desolation," spread in' vain the broad lateen sail of his boat from... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...the white-wall'd distant town. And whiter sails go skimming down ; And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view...seem'd no more. Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...the white-wall'd distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down ; And then there was a little isle,* Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view...seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...white-wall'd distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down ; And then there was a little isle,4 Which iu my very face did smile, The only one in view ; A small...seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters... | |
 | Johannes Fölsing - 1861 - 282 pages
...little world about him. — Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart. — There was a little Isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view; A small green isle, it seem 'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon-floor. — Nothing can be great which is not right.... | |
 | Agnes Catlow, Maria E. Catlow - 1861 - 436 pages
...Bonnivard : Byron indulges in a poet's license when he says — - And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view : A small green isle it seemed, no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, Rut in it there were three tall trees, And o'er... | |
 | Henry Watkins Allen - 1861 - 270 pages
...chained. In his own mournful but beautiful language he says : " And then there was a little isle Which to my very face did smile, The only one in view ; A small green isle, it seemed no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor ; But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er... | |
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And then there was a little isle Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view ; A small green isle, it seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it... 
