 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 884 pages
...after a season of absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of yore he " Wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the...fairy tales of science, and the long result of time." A feeling, cognate with, arid yet more imperious than those his high aspirations, springs up in his... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 448 pages
...absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of old he " Wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of time." A feeling, cognate with, and yet more imperious than those of his high aspirations, springs up in his... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 396 pages
...of absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of old he " WanderM, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of time." A feeling, cognate with, and yet more imperious than those of bis high aspirations, springs up in his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy...tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy...tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1851 - 236 pages
...formula occur sometimes unmixed, and constituting whole poems ; as — Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long results of Time ; When the centuries behind me, like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...billow." TROCHAIC HEPTAMETER. § 693. Formula a zX7, or a zX7+. Here' about' the beach' I wan'der'd, nourishing' a youth' sublime "With the fairy tales of science, and the long results of Time ; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the... | |
 | Religion - 1852 - 302 pages
...romance. Many of us can sympathize with these reminiscences :— " Here, about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime, With the fairy tales of science, and the long results of time ; When the centuries behind me, like a fruitful land, reposed ; When I clung to all... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy...tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise... | |
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