| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1816 - 82 pages
...KHAN A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where ALPH, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles...here were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, And folding sunny... | |
| English literature - 1845 - 716 pages
...oriental pomp and luxury. When Kubla Khan amused himself with ornamenting his " stately pleasure dome" Twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and...here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd many an incense-hearing tree, in any place, he caused it to be dug up with all its roots... | |
| 1864 - 998 pages
...Kubla-Khan A stately pleasure dome decree, Where Alf, the sacred river, ran, In caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were fenced round. And there were fountains bright, with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing... | |
| Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1874 - 540 pages
...mew."* • The city of Shangtu is referred to by Coleridge in his ' Dream of Kublai's Paradise ' : — "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome...ground "With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense- bearing tree ; And here... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree ; Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles...here were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Infolding sunny... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles...here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Infolding sunny... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree ; Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless wall* and towers were girdled round : And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1893 - 326 pages
...all the world, in summer, ran, In numbers measureless by man, The Wondrous Show to see ! There many miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Surrounding halls of vast machinery. And all earth's products,... | |
| English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With w;ills and towers were girdled round : And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd... | |
| American periodicals - 1871 - 880 pages
...sample, and of which Coleridge saw a very good one when he had that vision of Kublai Khan — " There were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And there were forests, ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery." Virgil, who emancipates... | |
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