I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with 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 American Bibliopolist - Page 2891871Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon...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
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands...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,... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...fruits and flowers , and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits , with garlands...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,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands...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 tinging birds,... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon,...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or restingon beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds,... | |
| Albert Picket - 1820 - 314 pages
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands...heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delighful... | |
| 1822 - 788 pages
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon...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,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon...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,... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pages
...fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them, I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon...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,... | |
| 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, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and, like him, we wish for the wings of an eagle,... | |
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