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" For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; I leard... "
Poems - Page 103
by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 pages
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The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference ...

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 490 pages
...land, and a happy augury for the future. CHAPTER X. MODERN UTOPIAS. PROLOGUE OF QUOTATIONS. " MRN, my brothers, men, the workers ever reaping something...the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales; Lo I the war drums throb no longer, and the battle flags are furled. In the parliament of man, the...
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Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
....arduous. Argo, the famous ship tltat sailed for the golden Jteece; as, argosy. Argonauts, p. 293. " I saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." — Tennyson. Armo, / arm ; armatus, armed,; as, armada, army, armistice, armament. Alarm is said to...
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Prue and I

George William Curtis - 1856 - 234 pages
...dropping down with costly bales." Tennyson. SEA FROM SHORE. "Come unto these yellow sands." The Tempest. " Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." Tennyson. IN the month of June, Prue and I like to walk upon the Battery toward sunset, and watch the...
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Prue and I.

George William Curtis - 1856 - 234 pages
...even fancied that I was already there. SEA PROM SHOEE, "Come unto these yellow sands." The Tempest. " Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales.'7 Tennyson. SEA FROM SHORE, "Come unto these yellow sands." The Tempest. 11 Argosies of magic...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 29

1859 - 558 pages
...costly treasure — amethyst and topaz pale. Many n reader will at once recal Tennyson's stanza — Saw the heavens fill with commerce — argosies of...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. Again, it is impossible for any one familiar with Coleridge to read "Endymion" and not be reminded...
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Russell's Magazine, Volume 6

Paul Hamilton Payne - 1860 - 614 pages
...immediately suggests the prophecy of Amy's lover, who, in a vision of future triumphs and possibilities, "Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales. " Here is one instance, among innumerable others, of a direct appropriation of thought and imagery,...
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London Society, Volume 2

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1862 - 778 pages
...material obstacles, which a great poet of past days, in the strength of his poetic foresight, beheld — ' Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;' for surely if we are proud of fathoming the depths of the upper air, of having reduced to an absolute...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

William Howitt - 1863 - 726 pages
...eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be : Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with cosily bales: Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nation's...
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The Hibernian Magazine. ..., Issues 1-6

1864 - 496 pages
...But I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of tho worlj, and all the glory that would be, Saw the heavens fill with commerce argosies of magic saile, Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales", etc. " Not in vain the distance...
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Stories of Banks and Bankers

Frederick Martin - 1865 - 256 pages
...elevating millions of human beings, and is pointing to the future as well as speaking of the past:— " Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." What would this " vision of the world" of commerce be without banks and bankers ?— Truly says Professor...
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