 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - Birds - 1878 - 472 pages
...ledge of a precipice. " He clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world he stands : The wrinkled sea...from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he f alia. "—TENNYSON. The cursorial birds build upon the ground ; the passerine, as they were formerly... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 618 pages
...dew." — SHELLEY. " Best and brightest, come away, Fairer far than this fair day." — SHELLEY. " He clasps the crag with hooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands." — TENNYSON. " Fairer than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung." —TENNYSON. Alliteration... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Exell - Bible - 1879 - 632 pages
...when their hosts marched forth from Egyptian bondage, — like the proud denizen of the air " Clasping the crag with hooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands." Sea ! Ver. 10. Some idea — faint, we admit — may be formed of the effect of the вез suddenly... | |
 | Episodes - 1880 - 278 pages
...a favourable wind sailed from those dreary Arctic wastes of eternal ice and snow THE EAGLE'S EYRIE. He clasps the crag with hooked hands, Close to the...his mountain walls. And like a thunderbolt he falls. — Tennyson. It is difficult to imagine a more enchanting and graceful landscape than is presented,... | |
 | Thomas Turner Wysong - Conestoga Indians - 1880 - 140 pages
...earth." THE EAGLE. "He clasps the crags with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world he stands, The wrinkled sea beneath...mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls." Some yards above the Saloon at the Rocks and under the hill, there lived in a small cabin a man by... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 400 pages
...happened to remember the little fragment called " The Eagle," which Halleck had never heard: — " He clasps the crag with hooked hands : Close to the sun, in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world he stands." A sudden light flashed into the poet's eye. " ' Ringed with... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 346 pages
...con-tem'pla-tive, thoughtful. de-v6t'ed, fated, doomed. e-the're-al, celestial. mag-a-zine [-£«»'], storehouse. He clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 364 pages
...oon-tem'pla-tive, thoughtful. de-v6t'ed, fated, doomed. e-thfi're-al, celestial. mag-a-zine [-zen<], storehouse. He clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Kinged with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1880 - 296 pages
...see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ? \V. BLAKE. 1 symmetry, beauty of form. * 7 » THE EAGLE. HE clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...laud-birds wail We sport in the gale, And merrily over the_ocean we sail. ANONYMOUS. THE EAGLE. A FRAGMENT. way ! Save me alike from foolish pride And impious discontent At aught Kinged with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain... | |
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HE clasps the crag with hooked hands : Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. 
