| English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...commences thus : Rydal Mount, April 7, 1819. PROLOGUE. THERE'S something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon : But through the clouds...shape is like the crescent moon. And now I Have a lit'.le boat, In shape a very crescent moon :— Kait through the clouds my boat can sail, But if perchance... | |
| Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...Wordsworth's lines. The original begins thus: There's something: in я flylnir horse, And something In a hug« balloon ; But through the clouds I'll never float Until I have a little boat Whose shape In like the crescent moon. And now I bave a little boat In shape a very crescent moon, &c. In a scrawl... | |
| Edgar Fawcett - American fiction - 1889 - 206 pages
...page wrote a parody of the poem. It will be remembered that " Peter Bell" ran in this way : PROLOGUE. There's something in a flying horse, And something...balloon; But through the clouds I'll never float Until I get a little Boat Whose shape is like the crescent moon. And now I have, a little Boat, In shape a... | |
| William Wordsworth, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - 251 pages
...proud Jerusalem I » [1828. INTRODUCTION TO TETEK BELL. THEKE'S something in a flying horse. There's something in a huge balloon; But through the clouds I'll never float Until I have a little Boat, For shape just like the crescent-moon. And now I have a little Boat, In shape a very crescent-moon:... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 914 pages
...flying horse, And something in a huge balloon ; Bat through the clouds I'll never float Until I get a little Boat Whose shape is like the crescent moon. And now I have a little Boat, IB shape a very crescent moon : — etc. Byron's parody is as follows : EPILOGUE. There's something... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 pages
...April i, 1819. PROLOGUE THERE'S something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon ; Bat through the clouds I'll never float Until I have a little Boat, Shaped like the crescent-moon. And now I hove a little Boat, In shape a very crescent-moon Fast through... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1896 - 464 pages
...Poems of the Imagination." — ED. PROLOGUE THERE'S something in a flying horse, There's something1 in a huge balloon ; But through the clouds I'll never float Until I have a little Boat, Shaped like 2 the crescent-moon. 5 And now I have a little Boat, In shape a very crescent-moon : Fast... | |
| Emma K. Gordon - Readers (Primary) - 1902 - 136 pages
...a starry night Are beautiful and fair. — WORDSWORTH. There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon ; But through the clouds...float Until I have a little boat, Whose shape is like a crescent moon. — WORDSWORTH. 96 Did you ever see a honey-bee ? Where do honeybees live? Where do... | |
| University of Sydney - 1904 - 680 pages
...While clombe above the eastern bar The horned moon, with one bright star Almost atween the tips. (4) There's something in a flying horse, And something...Until I have a little boat Whose shape is like the crescent-moon, (c) How every pause is filled with undernotes, Clear, silver, icy, keen awakening tones,... | |
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