| Nancy Bogen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 426 pages
...— and didn't have the foggiest idea how else to explain things. Have a looksee; what do you think? 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... | |
| Jean Aitchison - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 213 pages
...First, when they are perceived as proper names, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' (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.34 Kubla Khan is not in fact invented, nor... | |
| Thomas H. Cook - Fiction - 2007 - 325 pages
...back to the house, she was reciting to him," you tell Petrie. Her voice is a whisper in your mind. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a crystal sea. "Coleridge," you murmur quietly now, your... | |
| Dandi Palmer - Juvenile Fiction - 2015 - 129 pages
...Mistram instructed the control pad to project the words onto a gently rippling banner of yellow silk. 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... | |
| Anthony Pagden - History - 2008 - 576 pages
...for centuries to haunt the opium-drenched imagination of the English poet Samuel Taylor 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 So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
| Amanda Elyot - Fiction - 2008 - 452 pages
...indulgent enough to critique it, I should be ever in your debt. I snipped the string and began to read: 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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