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" ... fountains, or resting on 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 discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle,... "
The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ... - Page 153
by Moses Severance - 1835 - 300 pages
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History of English Literature...

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1904 - 524 pages
...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 could...of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of im eagle, that I might 196 THE CLASSIC AGE., BOOK m. fly away to those happy seats ; but the Genius...
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Matthew Arnold and His Relation to the Thought of Our Time: An Appreciation ...

William Harbutt Dawson - Great Britain - 1904 - 482 pages
...their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the fountains, or resting on beds of flowers, amid a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.' Or dead. Heine bad called him ' the Messiah of the nineteenth century,' and many people were convinced...
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Matthew Arnold and His Relation to the Thought of Our Time

William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 552 pages
...their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the fountains, or resting on beds of flowers, amid a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.' Or dead. Heine had called him ' the Messiah of the nineteenth century,' and many people were convinced...
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Studies in American and British Literature

Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - American literature - 1905 - 614 pages
...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...those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge....
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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...down by the side of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused bar- 10 mony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and...those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through 15 the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge....
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Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1905 - 442 pages
...resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused har"mony of singing birds, falling waters, humane voices, and "musical instruments. Gladness grew in...eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but 30 " the Genius told me there was no passage to them, except " through the gates of Death that I saw...
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Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...garlands upon their heads, passing " among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or 25 " resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused har"mony of singing birds, falling waters, humane voices, and " musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the dis" covery of so delightful...
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Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...shin" ing 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 fountains, or 25 " resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused har" mony of singing birds, falling waters,...
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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the side of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused har- 10 mony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew...
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Selections from the Works of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pages
...passing among the trees, 6 1711, two equal halfs. Corrected in No. 162 [1711] to " two equal parts." lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on...voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me 5 upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly...
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