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 - 1902 - 192 pages
...scene (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves) ; So sweet a spot of earth, you might (I ween) 160 Have guessed 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 opened by the wandering stream ; Both where... | |
| Hedwig Reschke - 1918 - 216 pages
...mirror in the depth of flowery shelves;) So sweet a spot on earth, you might (I ween) Have guess'd some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. Die romantische Romanliteratur der damaligen Zeit — nicht nur der englischen — liebte es, Lieder... | |
| Oscar Jewell Harvey - 1909 - 722 pages
...vale that I have ever seen. ' ' 'A valley from the river shore withdrawn ; ***** So sweet a spot on earth, you might, I ween, Have guessed some congregation of the elves, To sport by Summer moon, had shaped it for themselves.' " William L. Stone — mentioned on page 19 — wrote as follows... | |
| Mary Shelley - 1997 - 566 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...sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. IV. It seemed as if those scenes sweet influence had On Gertrude's soul, and kindness like their own... | |
| 1834 - 570 pages
...d'Epsom, ou d'Ascot." Now, were Chantilly even so charming a spot as to lead one to the belief that Some congregation of the elves. To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves ; yet I am not aware that on that account the races would necessarily be any the better contested.... | |
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