 The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers ; every blast shook spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon the ground.  Works - Seite 284von Samuel Johnson - 1811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1877 - 686 Seiten
...passage occurs which may be arranged as follows : ' The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, The banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers...rocks, And every month dropped fruits upon the ground.' This is verse, to all intents and purposes ; but the exact repetition of the form of the sentences... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 364 Seiten
...same, or at least a sister passion to it, seems woven into the frame of every son and daughter of Adam. All animals that bite the grass or browse the shrub,...beasts of prey by the mountains which confined them. The adverse winds, Whose leisure I have stayed, have given him time To land his legions all as soon... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1874 - 350 Seiten
...or at least a sister passion to it, seems woven into the frame of every son and daughter of Adam. AH animals that bite the grass or browse the shrub, whether...beasts of prey by the mountains which confined them. The adverse winds, Whose leisure I have stayed, have given him time To land his legions all as soon... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 Seiten
...precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers...animals that bite the grass, or browse the shrub, whethe* wild or tame, wandered in this extensive circuit, secured from beasts of prey by the mountains... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 Seiten
...precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers...the shrub, whether wild or tame, wandered in this exteusive circuit, secured from beasts of prey by the mountains which confined them. On one part were... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 Seiten
...precipice to precipice, till it was heard no more. 4. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees. The banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers....beasts of prey by the mountains which confined them. 5. On one part were flocks and herds feeding in the pastures ; on another, all the beasts of chase... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 Seiten
...farmer sat in his elbow-chair. More difficult. — All animals biting the grass or browsing the shrub, wild or tame, wandered in this extensive circuit, secured from beasts of prey by the mountains encircling them. 43. (§ 36.) Tell out the feminine forms corresponding to these masculine — Nephew,... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 Seiten
...precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers...spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits from the ground. All animals that bite the grass, or browse the shrub, whether wild or tame, wandered... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 446 Seiten
...precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers...spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits from the ground. All animals that bite the grass, or browse the shrub, whether wild or tame, wandered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 186 Seiten
...precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers...spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits from the ground. All animals that bite the grass, or browse the shrub, whether wild or tame, wandered... | |
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