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" A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky... "
A History of the County of Westchester, from Its First Settlement to the ... - Page 320
by Robert Bolton - 1848
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 21

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1843 - 632 pages
...world began. Tradition recalls pleasant pictures of Idleberg at that early period in its history: * A pleasing: land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-thai eye.' No gilded spires nor lordly halls attested the triumph of art over the simplicity of...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head suspense and expectation, no man shut his eyes, all...towards that quarter where they expected to discove : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast. And the...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard to flow. A pleating land of drowsy-head methinks, and diligently slow, Ihe firm connected...its long arme amidst the watery roar, out an empire, : There eke the soft delights, that wik-hingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the...
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Nugæ, by Nugator: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Issue 9

St. Leger Landon Carter - American poetry - 1844 - 230 pages
...arms, Together ascend to the jasper walls — 205 CASTLES IN THE AIR. A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky. — Thomson. In yonder clouds by sunset gilt, I, mimic castles...
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The Northern Journal of Medicine: A Monthly Survey of the Progress ..., Volume 2

1845 - 494 pages
...there such pleasant revelations have before fascinated the senses. " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye,...clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head 1 it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;...clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the...
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Life in earnest, etc. Fifth thousand

James Hamilton - 1845 - 162 pages
...resolutions. They live in the region which the poet has described : — " A pleasing lund of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye,...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer's sky." They have performed so many journeys, and made so many discoveries, and won so many...
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Life in Earnest: Six Lectures, on Christian Activity and Ardor. 10th Thousand

James Hamilton - Christian life - 1845 - 168 pages
...resolutions. They live in the region which the poet has described:— " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye,...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer's sky." They have performed so many journeys, and made so many discoveries, and won so many...
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The Wesleyan methodist association magazine, Volume 8

1845 - 584 pages
...resolutions. They live in the region which the poet has described : — " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye,...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer's sky." They have performed so many journeys, and made so many discoveries, and won so many...
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A Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 500 pages
...firm footing on its aerial continents. It is the part of poets to build up each his own Utopia, " like gay castles in the clouds that pass for ever flushing round a summer sky," to wax eloquent in picturing the splendid sunset of the world's day, the golden pinnacle in which its...
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