| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 550 pages
...Love, and those lines, whose exquisite melody is only equalled by their wildness, beginning, — " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree ; Where Alph, the sacred river, ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." Poetical Works, Vol. I., p. 266. This surely... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 546 pages
...Love, and those lines, whose exquisite melody is only equalled by their wildness, beginning, — " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree ; Where Alph, the sacred river, ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." Poetical Works, Vol. i., p. 266. This surely... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 pages
...different character, describing with equal fidelity the dream of pain and disease.— 1816. KUBLA KHAN. IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 pages
...very different character, describing with equal fidelity the dream of pain and disease. KUBLA KHAN. TN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1848 - 472 pages
...which he afterward committed to writing. The poem is entitled Kubla Khan, and begins as follows : " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree ; Where Alph, the sacred rirer, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." It is evident, from such statements... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pages
...lord, standing by to make way for it. Now for the architecture and landscape gardening of the poet:— In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
| Blanchard Fosgate - Sleep - 1850 - 192 pages
...take the poem of " Kubla Khan," which is the rehearsal verbatim of a dream of the poet Coleridge. " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree ; . -. Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." 4 " So twice five miles of fertile ground... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...standing by to make way for it. Now for the architecture and landscape gardening of the poet : — In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...lord, standing by to make way for it. Now for the architecture and landscape gardening of the poet:— In Xanadu did Kubla Khan • A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
| English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...standing by to make way for it. TSo-w for the architecture and landscape gardening of the poet : — In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
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