| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...have been in accordance with Alfred Tennyson's beautiful description of " an English Home, " with " dewy pastures, dewy trees, " Softer than sleep—all...in order stored — -• A haunt of ancient peace." On expressing my surprise to the guide, he told me that the Duke had intended to remove a considerable... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...heights, and higher All barr'd with long white cloud the scornful crags. And highest, snow and fire. And one, an English home—gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, SofU-r than sleep—all things in order stored, Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, As fit for... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...upland, prodigal in oil, And hoary to the wind. And one, a foreground black with stones and slags, And one, an English home—gray twilight pour'd On...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, As fit for every mood of mind, Or gay, or grave, or sweet,... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...heights, and higher All barr'd with long white cloud the scornful crags, And highest, snow and fire. " And one, an English home—gray twilight pour'd On...order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace." Tennyson never generalizes. He gives us not aspects of nature, but some one special aspect at a given place... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...heights, and higher All barr'd with long white cloud the scornful crags, And highest, snow and fire. And one, an English home—gray twilight pour'd On...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, As fit for every mood of mind, Or gay, or grave, or sweet,... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...heights, and higher All barr'd with long white cloud the scornful crags, And highest, snow and fire. And one, an English home—gray twilight pour'd On...order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace." Tennyson never generalises. He gives us not aspects of nature, but some one special aspect at a given place... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pages
...heights, and higher All barr'd with long white cloud the scornful crags, And highest, snow and fire. And one, an English home—gray twilight pourd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep — all things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. Or sweet Europa's mantle blew unclasp'd,... | |
| 1865 - 1046 pages
...; And fearless there the lowly sleep As the bird beneath their eaves. ... An English home — gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. How far more perfect in its beauty is here the second picture ! Let us add another example from Wordsworth's... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 pages
...of upland, prodigal in oil, And hoary to the wind. And one, an English home—gray twilight poured On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep—all...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient peace. Then through the region of art and legend he passes on till he is lost in the classic with its deadness... | |
| PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...than artist. The following has been very often painted, and is probably familiar to all my readers: And one, an English home—gray twilight pour'd On...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. The figure subjects are Christian, Mohammedan, or classical. Or in a clear-wall'd city on the sea,... | |
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