 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - English essays - 1864 - 344 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 singing-birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 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...resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmonv of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 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...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 - English literature - 1866 - 446 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...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 of singing... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 442 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...garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying downhy the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 170 pages
...years in as many minutes. 9. They got him up to his room without help and laid him down on his bed. 10. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with...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
...years in as many minutes. 9. They got him up to his room without help and laid him down on his bed. 10. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and Hovers, 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 delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle,... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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 delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle,... | |
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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,... 
