| esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 Seiten
...either side, a wood Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood : And where this valley winded out below,...before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer-sky. These eke the soft delights, that witchingly... | |
| Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 Seiten
...opening of the poem is both admirable Spenser and admirable "atmosphere": A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky: There eke the soft delights, that witchingly... | |
| 1923 - 748 Seiten
...And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of Dreams that...before the half-shut eye, And of gay Castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. . . . JAMES THOMSON. 470. "Aw ARE, AWAKE!"... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...Spenserian vocabulary. Thomson did however succeed in capturing sornething of Spenser's mood and movement: A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was Of dreams that wave before the half -shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. There... | |
| Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 Seiten
...Sleepy Hollow (Found among the Papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker) A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky. Castle of Indolence IN THE BOSOM of one of those... | |
| John Veitch - 1887 - 388 Seiten
...And where this valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that...before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." On the walls of the castle : — " Sometimes... | |
| Washington Irving - 1991 - 100 Seiten
...SLEEPY HOLLOW FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DŒDRICH KNICKERBOCKER A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE IN THE BOSOM OF one of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 Seiten
...SLEEPY HOLLOW Found Among the Payers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. Castle of Indolence. IN the bosom of one of... | |
| Andrew Burstein - 2008 - 432 Seiten
...Scottish poet James Thomson's 1748 work, "The Castle of Indolence." A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. move." These woodlands, located in a valley,... | |
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