 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
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1863 - 458 pages
...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 " ' A valley from the river shore withdrawn; * * * * * So sweet a spot of earth, you might, I ween, Have...some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moon, had shaped it for themselves.7 "The river by which it is divided, enriched and greatly beautified,... | |
 | John Hoskyns Abrahall - 1864 - 498 pages
...of his " Pennsylvanian cottage " : — " 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." (7.) In the first mention of Mackinaw by a White Man, FISIUUV. Father Dablon ** speaks of it as " 1'isle... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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. Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas opened by the wandering stream ; Both where at... | |
 | Lewis H. Miner - 1866 - 170 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. II. And past those settlers' haunts the eye might roam, Where earth's unliving silence all would seem... | |
 | 1866 - 524 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. ii. Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas open'd by the wandering stream ; Both where... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1869 - 334 pages
...undulations, landward. Port Erin is enchanted ground ! There are secluded nooks about it, that seem as if Some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped them for themselves. The village is all under the eye. Down in the lowmost part, where the cottages... | |
 | William Skeen - 1870 - 438 pages
...place serene t'nme 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." CAMPBELL. The Bandara family came originally from the Maritime Provinces. The cause of their settlement... | |
 | William Skeen - 1870 - 442 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...congregation of the elves To sport by summer moons h;ul shaped it for themselves " CAMPBELL. last of the Sinhalese born sovereigns of Ceylon, who reigned... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...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...some congregation of the elves To sport by summer moous, had shaped it for themselves 11. Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas opened... | |
 | 1870 - 530 pages
...resplendent moon, we should think you the one perfect spot of earth. u So sweet a spot of earth we u;i jh t , I ween. Have guessed some congregation of the elves To sport by Bummer moons had shaped it for themselves." WINTEMOYEH. BI MAT WBIT.1ET. " Wintemoyeh ! Pale-faced... | |
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