| Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.' W. Wordsworth. 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... | |
| James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...wild, fantastic piece, scarcely more intelligible than a dream. The following is the opening stanza: 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 Wells Williams - China - 1882 - 898 pages
...capital of Shangtu, rendered more famous among English reading people by Coleridge's exquisite poem — 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 [poetical works] Coleridge - 1882 - 448 pages
...originally, as it were, given to him. Atfptoi' &Siov &ffw: but the to-morrow is yet to come. 1816. 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... | |
| Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 418 pages
...your own way, Tom Pinch's ride to London; or any similar journey. KUBLA KHAN. 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... | |
| 1883 - 528 pages
...contrasts do not of course come under the present definition of irregular metres at all." — Atheiueum.] 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... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...love, — and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart ! On taking leave of , 1817. 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. Kubla Khan. Ancestral voices prophesying... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1883 - 350 pages
...delight in their own beauty. KUBLA KHAN. SUGOESTKD 1O THE AUTHOR BY A PASSAGE IN PCRCHAS's PILGRIMAGE. 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 - Critics - 1884 - 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... | |
| Thomas O'Hagan Baron O'Hagan - Authors, English - 1884 - 446 pages
...return, after the lapse of an hour, he had forgotten all the rest of the composition of his slumber:— 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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