 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...introduction of Buddhism. — J'llcmt Year* in fpi/foiif vol. i. ch. x. ]>. 207. 612 THE RUINED CITIES. And there were gardens, bright with sinuous rills. Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree, And forests, ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery." ' On reaching the grass-grown street... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1859 - 700 pages
...the duction of Biuldhism.^.Efei'm Years Ruins, by Mr. KXIGHTON, in the in Ceylon, vol. i. ch. xp 207. And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree, And forests, ancient as the hills, Enfolding- sunny spots of greenery." ' On reaching the grass-grown street... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pages
...the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled...there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil • seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So ! twice five miles of fertile ground, With walls and towers were girdled...there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 400 pages
...palace of Kubla Khan, " Where twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were gilded round ; And there were gardens, bright with sinuous...Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And forests, ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots,of greenery." The writer says : " That which renders... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 720 pages
...the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 332 pages
...sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover' A savage... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ; Where was heard the mingled measure... | |
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IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens... 
