| Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
...reality. ALFRED TENNYSON: 1809. THE LOTOS-EATERS. " COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the laud, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In...afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, 5 Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like... | |
| 1879 - 524 pages
...your breast — And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. THE LOTOS-EATERS. " COURAGE ! he said, and pointed toward the land, "...mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the af ternoon they came unto a land, ln which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid... | |
| Arthur Griffiths - 1879 - 320 pages
...afternoon., ' Upon my word, Mr. Gwynne., ' Or perhaps you have never read Tennyson ? , ' Try me — In the afternoon they came unto a land — In which it seemed always afternoon. I should not like a country where it was always afternoon., 'No? Why not?, ' Too suggestive of laziness,... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...laden breast, Full of sad experience moving toward the stillness of his rest. THE LOTOS-EATERS. I. " Courage! " he said, and pointed toward the land; "This...unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. 5 All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced... | |
| Sir Edward James Reed - Japan - 1880 - 416 pages
...difficult landing-place, upon an isle so pleasant that one began to think of the " Lotus-eaters " — " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon." It was curious to observe that in anticipation of earthquakes the lighting machinery of the lighthouse... | |
| James Coutts - New Zealand - 1880 - 132 pages
...fit to be the speech of those weary of the sea, the oar, " The wandering fields of barren foam." " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon." The frequency of the vowels lends it an Italian softness, but, like that of all rude people, it is... | |
| Charles S. Robinson - Bible - 1880 - 340 pages
...Christian travelers, as the Laureate sings of those whom only his imagination saw on the journey : " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon." XXV. THE FINAL PRAYER. HE WHICH TESTIFIETH THESE THINGS SAITH, SURELY I COME QUICKLY ; AMEN. EVEN so,... | |
| Edward Heneage Dering - 1880 - 484 pages
...It was the beginning of—the end," he thought, " and the anniversary is to-day." CHAPTER XLVII. " ' Courage ! ' he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mounting wave will bear us shoreward soon. ' " —TENNYSON. after eight o'clock the landlord of the Red Lion began to... | |
| John Richard Blakiston - Geography - 1881 - 326 pages
...that of which our poet-laureate thus writes : — ' In the afternoon they came unto a land Wherein it seemed always afternoon ; All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that had a troubled dream. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land ; far off three... | |
| 1872 - 586 pages
...All things seemed to quiver and reel in the glaring heat of the sun ; it was a " lotos-eating " day. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Lulled by the drowsy peacefulness of everything about me, and the monotonous regularity of all the... | |
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