Came freshening, and reflecting all the scene : (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves ;) So sweet a spot of earth you might, (I ween) Have guessed some congregation of the elves To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves... Tom Cringle's Log - Page 264by Michael Scott - 1833 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...resting-place serene Came freshening, and reflecting all the scene (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves) : So sweet a spot of earth, you might (I ween) Have...sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. u. Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas opened by the wandering stream ; Both where... | |
| Nicholas Murray - 1854 - 286 pages
...beauty by any vale that I have ever seen. " A valley from the river shore withdrawn ; * •* .x- * * So sweet a spot of earth, you might, I ween, Have...some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moon, had shaped it for themselves." The river by which it is divided, enriched, and greatly beautified,... | |
| 1855 - 366 pages
...shrubbery which is everywhere around, are seen the proper accompaniments to this cottage of the Glen. "So sweet a spot of earth, you might, I ween, Have...sport by summer moons had shaped it for themselves." Willis himself opened the door to us, and a single glance at the apartment into which we were shown... | |
| 1856 - 416 pages
...indescribable character to a scene already unique in wildness and grandeur. " You would have thought some congregation of the elves To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves." back to the inn for a staff which had been forgotten by one of the party. On his return he appeared... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1857 - 114 pages
...mirror in the depth of flowery shelves :) So sweet a spot of earth you might (I ween) Have guess'd some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. n. Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas open'd by the wand'ring stream ; Both where... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1858 - 120 pages
...mirror in the depth of flowery shelves :) So sweet a spot of earth you might (I ween) Have guess'd some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. Vet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas open'd by the wand'ring stream ; Both where at... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1859 - 424 pages
...mirror in the depth of flowery shelves ;) So sweet a spot of earth, you might (I ween) Have guess' d some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped it forthemselvei Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas open'd by the wandering stream ;... | |
| Fenton Aylmer - 1860 - 346 pages
...place serene Came freshening and reflecting all the scene, (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves). So sweet a spot of earth you might, I ween, Have guessed...sport by summer moons had shaped it for themselves." GERTRUDE OF WYOMING. WE had, as I said before, a glorious passage from Petropaulovski, and passed just... | |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1862 - 472 pages
...that I have ever seen. '"A valley from the river shore withdrawn ; ***** So sweet a spot of earth, yon might, I ween, Have guessed some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moon, had shaped it for themselves.* "The river by which it is divided, enriched and greatly beautified,... | |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1863 - 464 pages
...in quiet beauty by any vale that I have ever seen. " 'A valley from the river shore withdrawn; ***** So sweet a spot of earth, you might, I ween, Have...some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moon, had shaped it for themselves.' "The river by which it is divided, enriched and greatly beautified,... | |
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