...— instead of rage , Breathing deliberate valor. IDLENESS. A PLEASING land of drowsy heads it wag, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing raund a summer's sky. JAMES MONTGOMERY, THE POET. BT THE EDITOR. " For ever with the Lord." This aged...

...Enchanted Lake, or Thomson claim it as the realization of his delicious Land of Drowsihead : — " Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky ; There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,...

...below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of Dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. . . . JAMES THOMSON. 470. "Aw ARE, AWAKE!" "I thank God for my happy dreams," wrote Sir...

...emptily and lovingly away together to the tavern. | 1748 James Thomson, Castle of Indolence VI, 5, the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast. | 1751 Smollett, Peregr. Pickle II, XVIII, he had never willingly and wittingly used any gentleman...

...of trout-fishing and sheep-shearing in Springznd Summer, while an occasional magical phrase like : And of gay castles in the clouds that pass For ever flushing round a summer-sky brings to mind Lessing's remarks on the change of beauty into charm; 'Charm is beauty in motion ......

...mood and movement: 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. There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,...

...DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. 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. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE *The Works of Washington Irving. The Kinderhook Edition (New York:...

...(Found among the Papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker) 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, Forever flushing round a summer sky. Castle of Indolence IN THE BOSOM of one of those spacious coves...

...below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." On the walls of the castle : — " Sometimes the pencil, in cool airy halls, Bade the...

...slumbrous influence kest [cast] FIOIU poppies breathed.... There eke the soft delights that wiuhingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast; and the calm pleasures always hover 'd nigh;. . . It is not the moral and social virtues of "merrie" England (magnanimous generosity,...