| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 262 pages
...foam-fountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together,...For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses,... | |
| Balfour Stewart - Future life - 1878 - 362 pages
...no influence whatever upon the world or man.' It is of such gods the poet speaks when he says j— ' For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are...in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world Where they smile in secret, looking over... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - Birds - 1878 - 472 pages
...barren foam." To men thus disconsolate it might be a source of happiness, " In the hollow lotos-land to live and lie reclined, On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind. " But most of us would desire some activity of life around us. Mr. Gosse paints a glorious picture... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...foamfountains in the sen. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together,...in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over... | |
| 1879 - 524 pages
...us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, ln the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reelined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind....are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the elonds are lightly curl'd Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world: Where they smile... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...the sea. wonb- Ufa Let us swear an/bath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hnMpw V .otns-fcnd to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together,...in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over... | |
| William Barclay - Religion - 1976 - 224 pages
...the Greeks thought of their gods they thought of them as Tennyson pictures them in the Lotos Eaters: "For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are...in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world: Where they smile in secret, looking over... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...foam-fountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. . . . 233. The Cyclopes. They next arrived at the country of the Cyclopes. The Cyclopes * inhabited... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...starboard, rolled to larboard, when the surge was seething free, (1. 150-151) 89 In the hollow Lotos land that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless (1. 154-155) 461 Tennyson 462 90 they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine,... | |
| Ulric Neisser, Robyn Fivush - Psychology - 1994 - 328 pages
...themselves as gods: Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together,...careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar . . . . . . they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake,... | |
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