| Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 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,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 284 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. Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, As fit for every mood of mind, *> Or gay, or grave, or sweet,... | |
| Duchess - 1895 - 440 pages
...calm And here in this old home, what a place it is ! A veritable treasury of old-world delights. " Dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep — all...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient peace." As he walks from the gate to the Cottage, a slim figure darting sideways brings him to a standstill.... | |
| Charles Macauley Stuart - 1896 - 328 pages
...and higher All barred with long white cloud the scornful crags, And highest, snow and fire. And one, an English home— gray twilight poured On dewy pastures,...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,... | |
| Israel Zangwill - English essays - 1896 - 410 pages
...literature, setting in graphic antithesis the dust and flare and fever of the Boulevards against the English home, gray twilight poured On dewy pastures,...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient peace, where the English Laureate brooded over his chiselled verses. How much more piquant a contrast might... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 250 pages
...land of peace. We are in England still — the England of Tennyson — with " Gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep—...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace." The three characteristics of Tennyson's "greatest poems are: the personal note, the English atmosphere,... | |
| Rolf Boldrewood - Australian fiction - 1897 - 468 pages
...monotonous would look certain of our landscapes when contrasted with an English home, with its " grey twilight poured on dewy pastures, dewy trees, softer...things in order stored — a haunt of ancient peace." Not that there is no element of grandeur about the boundless sweep of a plain ocean, the brilliant,... | |
| Art - 1897 - 410 pages
...and which are so well suggested by that picture in the Palace of Art. And one an English home-grey twilight poured, On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. And so, in trying to realise a similar ideal, it seems natural to use the same materials as far as... | |
| Edna Chynoweth - 1897 - 292 pages
...Next (l)Taine II. 535-6. (¿)Princess, Conclusion 216. we see - an English home gray twili$it pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep -...things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace, (l) It seems as if Taine had merely put into prose these verses, for his description of Tennyson's... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - Landscape in literature - 1897 - 324 pages
...gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, 1 Biographia Literaria, ch. ii. 2 JH Card. Newman. Softer than sleep — all things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace. Or, again, speaking of the sea as watched from a lofty precipice, how he pounces as it were upon the... | |
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