| Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...the belted hunter blew His wreathed bugle-horn. One show'd an English home — grey twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep —...things in order stored — A haunt of ancient peace." The following account of feeding hogs on mast at this season, from Gilpin, is highly curious : " It... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...cloud the scornful crags, And highest, snow and fire. And one, an English home— gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep —...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, As fit for every mood of mind, Or gay, or grave, or sweet,... | |
| United States - 1844 - 671 pages
...the whole poem. Here are some pictures of the poet's own fancy. '. One showed an English home ; grey twilight poured On dewy pastures, dewy trees ; Softer...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient peace. • • • One seemed a fore-ground black with stones and slags, Below, sun-smitten icy spires Rose... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...cloud the scornful crags, And highest, snow and fire. And one, an English home — gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep —...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, As fit for every mood of mind, Or gay, or grave, or sweet,... | |
| 1888 - 862 pages
...walk brought us into a district of quite a different character. Gray twilight poured On dewy postures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep — all things in order stored — A haunt of ancient peace. There were the quaint manse and the old white church peeping up among a rich woodland. With chastened... | |
| Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...portico Tall poplar trees their shadows throw. Longfellow. 28 An English home, grey twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep, all...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient peace. Tennyson. 29 Within some deep sequester'd dell, In low-roof 'd cot, you're doom'd to dwell, Where all... | |
| Peter Bayne - Christian life - 1855 - 540 pages
...might have suggested that perfect little picture by Tennyson, "An English home — gray twilight pour"d On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep—...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace." He lived much in the consideration of Old Testament times and worthies, shaping his life after that... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...cloud the scornful crags, And highest, snow and fire. And one, an English home — gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep —...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, As fit for every mood of mind, Or gay, or grave, or sweet,... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 522 pages
...the scornful crags. And highest, snow and fire. "And one, an English home — gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep —...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace." • Tennyson never generalizes. He gives us not aspects of nature, but some one special aspect at a... | |
| American periodicals - 1855 - 594 pages
...by our great master of landscape : — " An English home — gray twilight pour'd On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleep — all things in order stored ; A haunt of ancient peace." The rest of Hawthorne's works consist principally of tales and sketches ; and in 9-J8 these, notwithstanding... | |
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