| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...different character, describing with equal fidelity the dream of pain and disease —1816. / V 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... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...fable of the underground course of Alpheus that Coleridge alludes to in his poem of 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." In one of Moore's juvenile poems he thus... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...been originally, as it were, given to him. Mptor itiov &iru : but the to-morrow is yet to come. ISM. 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 - English poetry - 1857 - 426 pages
...originally, as it were, given to him. AKpiov ii&iov &ffa : but the to-morrow is yet to come. 1896. 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 - 1858 - 792 pages
...different character, describing with equal fidelity the drctun 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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...lord, standing by to make way for it. Now for the architecture and landscape gardening of the po^ : — 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... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Night and Day go by ; And stars move calmly overhead. ALLINQHAM. jmn ; or, g. Vision in a A FRAQMENT. 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,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...as the beautifulj Love, and those lines, whose exquisite melody is equalled by their weird fancy. " 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." This was enough for one year, a year of... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...rising sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. 320. KUBLA KHAN : OR, A VISION IN A DREAM. 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... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1864 - 582 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 river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." It is evident from such statements as these,... | |
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