 | Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 oldal
...melody of the following stanzas: • ' Courage,' he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mountain wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full faced above the valley stood the moon ;* And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along... | |
 | 1871 - 878 oldal
...painting his blue boy contrary to the received axioms of pictorial combinations. The lines describing the land " In which it seemed always afternoon — All...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream, Full faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke the slender stream Along the... | |
 | 1847 - 556 oldal
...languor" over the ship's company. We are reminded of the fine passage in Tennyson's " Lotos Eaters :" " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." " Every one," says our author, " seemed to be under the influence of some narcotic. Even the officers... | |
 | Marc Antony Henderson - 1856 - 156 oldal
...CIGAR-SMOKERS. _ " ' COUEAGF. ! ' he said, and painted towards the land ; ' This mounting wave will roll UH shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon." THE LOTOS-EATBRS— Alfred Tennyson. I. " LAND ho ! " he cried, "I see it now," says he, "This jolly... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1857 - 120 oldal
...sounds. Thus, TENNYSON, in the "Lotos Eaters": — " ' Courage,' he said, and pointed to the strand ; ' This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream ; Fall-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along... | |
 | 1857 - 834 oldal
...£fttb. In the afternoon they came nnto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon, All round the coaat the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. TIIK LOTOS KATIES. AWAY down upon the Atlantic coast nearly to the jumping-off-place of this free and... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1858 - 658 oldal
...dexterity. 155 At length we came * * * "unto a land ID which it seemed always afternoon ; All loimJ tlie coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream."* We were at Perim, and what a dreary, melancholy spot the isle, which looked so bright in the distance,... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 oldal
...crocodile, and a vivid description of white waterlilies ; he makes them a land to suit their condition. " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Pull-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1914 - 872 oldal
...hopes of humanity. If we believe that the ner experience ahead of us is like that of the mariners — ' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon ' — then we acquiesce in a dreamless sort of sleep as the best hop* of man. No, we must rather trust... | |
 | 1861 - 636 oldal
...delicious Indian-summer haziness of the shore where the " Lotos-Eaters " moored their bark : — " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." One begins to feel, in turning these earlier, gilt-edged leaves, that a cataract before long in the... | |
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he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. 
