...take an oblique direction; to be declivous or inclined; to descend in a sloping or slanting direction. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...I look on great Orion, sloping slowly to the west. Tennyson. 2. To run away; to decamp; to elope; to disappear suddenly. [Slang.] Slope (s!6p), adp. Obliquely;...

...such an opportunity. The nebula in Orion will show splendidly, and, " ' The Pleiads rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.' " " What a devotee you are ! What a bigot you would have been five hundred years ago! What a tireless...

...in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, 5 And the' hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. i Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, /f-Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. X'Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro'...

...that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracks, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...to the west. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about...

...In the distance overlooks the sandy tracts. And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Mnny a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to...rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the WosL Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies...

...that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire- flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime...

...that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts. And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...to the west. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the...

...sun." Tennyson has a different theory .of the Pleiads : "Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade. Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid." — Locksley Hall. Byron alludes to the lost Pleiad: "Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below." See...

...speaker recalls the lost horizons that used to be visible from them, horizons of both vision and thought. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...look on great Orion sloping slowly to the west. Many nights I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled...

...photographs reveal that Tennyson was relaying scientific information when he wrote in "Locksley Hall" Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow...like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Most of the Pleiades cluster is involved in a nebula — "a silver braid." Most of the material of...