 but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden ; there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness in the air. I heard a low and pleasant sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad...  Lights and Shadows of Artist Life and Character - Page 248by James Smith - 1853 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...flower move, and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and color of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose-leaf,...songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral." It would, perhaps, have been better for his fame had he connected it more with the superstitious beliefs... | |
 | England - 1865 - 808 pages
...saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a Dody laid out on a rose-leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral ! ' " It would be too absurd to suppose that Blake, any more than the person he addressed, could believe... | |
 | Arminianism - 1881 - 1046 pages
...underneath I saw a procession of creatures, of the size and colour of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing " body laid out on a roseleaf, which they buried with...songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral.' The visions were not intended to be&r the test of a hard literalism. Blake himself partly explained... | |
 | 1833 - 570 pages
...the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and color of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid...songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral." His high aspirations and brilliant fancies must have come from the world within him ; for he had few... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1830 - 374 pages
...creatures of the size and colour of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral." It would, perhaps, have been better for his fame had he connected it more with the superstitious beliefs... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 292 pages
...creatures of the size and colour of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral." It would, perhaps, have been better for his fame had he connected it more with the superstitious beliefs... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - Married women - 1833 - 346 pages
...creatures of the size and color of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral." His high aspirations and brilliant fancies must have come from the world within him ; for he had few... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 574 pages
...creatures of the size and color of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral." ' The Ancient of Days was such a favorite with Blake, that three days before his death, he sat bolstered... | |
 | Robert Macnish - Hygiene - 1834 - 310 pages
...creatures of the size and color of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral.' " On being asked to draw the likeness of Sir William Wallace, that hero immediately stood before him,... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...which he heard at Lady Middleton's route last night. " I was walking alone in my garden last-night: there was great stillness among the branches and flowers,...songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral." Or they are discussing, somewhat pompously, Herschel's late discovery of Uranus, and the immense distance... | |
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