 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the lides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons...voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers , and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons...discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the vings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the Genius told me there was no... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons...of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of tinging birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me at the discovery... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons...in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passirfg among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons...the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or restingon beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.. I could see persons...sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delighful a scene. I wished for the wings of an '?tigle,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons...and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, failing waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...and flowers, and bright with a thousand shining streams that flow between them. We see those persons in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads,...of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and, like him, we wish for the wings of an eagle, that we might fly to those happy seats, and be at rest.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little kers in the house of lords both in the declamatory...enterprising, and overbeariug. He hid been bred up in urinals, bridge, ip-doors ,eir way, iped had them. ; myself Id me I t: Take , and tell dost not p,... | |
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I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices,... 
