 ... of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I...  The Fourth Reader of the School and Family Series - Page 274by Marcius Willson - 1860 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the...beds of flowers, and could hear a confused harmony of singing-birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 pages
...garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down hy (he sides of fountains, or vesting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony...so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an ea^le, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 170 pages
...room without help and laid him down on his bed. 10. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, resting on beds of flowers. 11. I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on those happy islands. 12. I saw... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 102 pages
...room without help and laid him down on his bed. 10. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, resting on beds of flowers. 11. I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on those happy islands. 12. I saw... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...thousand little shining seas' that ran among them. I could see persons' dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the...for the wings of an eagle' that I might fly away' to thoso happy seats. But the Genius told me' that there was no passage to them, except through the gates... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the...sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the...sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle,... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the...of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singingbirds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me at the discovery... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 pages
...among the trees, lying down by the sides of the fountains, or resting on bed* of flowers; and conld hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling...voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me npon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wisheil for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of the fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and conld hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
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