 | Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 էջ
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 էջ
...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...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. ii. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ;... | |
 | 1850 - 676 էջ
...descriptive power is beautifully illustrated in the following passage from the " Lotos- Eaters." " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 էջ
...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...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And... | |
 | 1871 - 878 էջ
...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 Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 էջ
...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...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. II. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ;... | |
 | 1847 - 556 էջ
...languor" over the ship's company. We are reminded of the fine passage in Tennyson's " Lotos Eaters :" " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." " Every one," says our author, " seemed to be under the influence of some narcotic. Even the officers... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 էջ
...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...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. XL A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 էջ
...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...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. IT. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1851 - 110 էջ
...— "'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...the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall did seem." But all corporeal or physical auxiliaries ; darkness, or a soft subdued light ; silence, or lulling... | |
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In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a, weary dream. 
