 Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit...  The Quarterly Review - Σελίδα 333επεξεργασία από - 1854Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1846 - 436 σελίδες
...heaven's wide, pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will... | |
 | Alfred Gatty - 1848 - 144 σελίδες
...he was keeper of the forest there, and the river, often much swollen in winter, intervened : — " On a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar." The curfew bell at Carfax was instituted, says Peshall, by... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 σελίδες
...Heav'n's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. 31 Oft, on a plat of rising ground, • . I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, . • Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 σελίδες
...heav'ns' wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-wnter'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed... | |
 | 1903 - 666 σελίδες
...great bell was last rung, or whether it was ever rung. As Milton says in ' II Penseroso ' :— Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off Curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Thomas Hearne in his 'Diary' under date 28 September,... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 336 σελίδες
...from observing that the Commentators have left unnoticed a probable origin of the fine passage Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; in Constable's Third Sonnet of the Fifth Decade of his Diana.... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 90 σελίδες
...from observing that the Commentators have left unnoticed a probable origin of the fine passage Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; in Constable's Third Sonnet of the Fifth Decade of his Diana.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 σελίδες
...heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 σελίδες
...Heav'ns' wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still, removed... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 σελίδες
...heavens' wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide water'd shore Singing slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit,' Some still removed... | |
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