| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...possible to conceive of anything more lovely than one of these Lagoon Islands with its graceful palm trees and its groves of Pisonia, the still quiet lake within,...isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea.' Within the upper portions of this area the coral fauna may be witnessed in all the perfection of its... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - 1852 - 564 pages
...skies, Breadths of tropic shade, and palms in cluster, knots of paradise. Droops the heavy blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea. TERNTSOK. tlued their ferocious enemies the Mahrattas, the most daring warriors of India. This powerful... | |
| 1854 - 594 pages
...land, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy hlossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." Take Wordsworth, and in his deep-thoughted lines, no labored juggling with technicality is discoverable... | |
| 1857 - 700 pages
...EnSlides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea." Love and balle, the opera and angling, boating and swimming, and the piquant delights of a highly original... | |
| 1857 - 716 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea." Love and balls, the opera and angling, boating and swimming, and the piquant delights of a highly original... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 pages
...woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom' d bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark -purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway,... | |
| Fenton Aylmer - 1860 - 336 pages
...farewell to the Marquesas, and hey for the Sandwich Isles ! CHAPTER XIV. " Droops the heavy blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." THE breeze kept steady for the next six days, and helped us along handsomely ; then a calm came, and... | |
| Fenton Aylmer - 1860 - 338 pages
...farewell to the Marquesas, and hey for the Sandwich Isles ! CHAPTER XIV. " Droops the heavy blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." THE breeze kept steady for the next six days, and helped us along handsomely ; then a calm came, and... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1860 - 896 pages
...woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea. The Red Indian, belted with the it is but justice to say we have scalps of his foes, compromises for... | |
| 1863 - 396 pages
...skies, ' Hreadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. ' Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy -fruited tree — ' Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. ' There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, '... | |
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