| Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 pages
...Courage,' he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mountain wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full faced above the valley stood the moon ;* And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along... | |
| 1850 - 676 pages
...across her brow." This descriptive power is beautifully illustrated in the following passage from the " Lotos- Eaters." " In the afternoon they came unto...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...This descriptive power is beautifully illustrated in the following passage from the " Lotos-Eaters." " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
| 1871 - 878 pages
...painting his blue boy contrary to the received axioms of pictorial combinations. The lines describing the land " In which it seemed always afternoon — All...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream, Full faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke the slender stream Along the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the land; " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1851 - 110 pages
...— "'Courage,' he said, and pointed to the strand; 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream; Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the land ; " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 pages
...crocodile, and a vivid description of white waterlilies; he makes them a land to suit their condition. " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, . Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
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