 | Douglas Allport - Camberwell (London, England) - 1841 - 314 pages
...picture of the city of the great Bali is indeed no fiction, as applied to our own parish. Here once were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks...sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood nymphs lie With languid limbs in Summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flow'rs,... | |
 | 1884 - 656 pages
...found now that the spectacle not only equalled but far surpassed my most sanguine anticipations. " ' And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As mossy bed whereon the wood-nymphs lie, With languid limbs, in summer's sultry hours : Here, too, were... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...to him : " ' It was a garden still beyond all price, Even yet it was a place of paradise ; * * * * * And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores,...sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1854 - 344 pages
...such a scene for the embellishment of the wildest of his romances : — " And here were coral-bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here too were living flowers,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...him : " ' It was a garden still beyond all price, Even yet it was a place of paradise ; * * * • * And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores,...sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers,... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...Just listen to him : " ' It was a garden still beyond all price, Even yet it was a place of paradise ; And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, on soil and fair to eye As o'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie Witli languid limbs in Bummer's... | |
 | William Stones (travel writer.) - 1858 - 268 pages
...flourish, thickly covering the floor of ocean as with an enamelled living carpet of matchless splendour. " And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores,...sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymph lie, With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours." Hosts of these tiny, social,... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - Marine animals - 1858 - 588 pages
...the large glass jar with handles made of rope, wherein to put what specimens we find. CHAPTER II. " And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eve As e'er was mossy bed "SYhereon the "VYood-Nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours."... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1859 - 216 pages
...naturalist, as Southey, who knew them well, describes the rich contents of these rock-pools :— " And here were coral bowers. And grots of madrepores,...sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed, Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers,... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 pages
...naturalist, as Southey, who knew them well, describes the rich contents of these rock-pools : — " And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores,...sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed, Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers,... | |
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Nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here too were living flowers Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted, And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd like green anthers many a seeking head. 
