 | English poets - 1862 - 626 páginas
...his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. CHILLON. AND then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view...seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 páginas
...the white wall'd distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down ; And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view...seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1863 - 860 páginas
...flourish on it. Byron's lines are vividly recalled to the mind: "And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view." Prisoner of Chilian. C. XIU. A recent tragic event has also contributed to the interest of this spot;... | |
 | 1908 - 554 páginas
...the white-wall'd distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down; And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view; A small green isle, it seemed no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 928 páginas
...least, and in the heart of them with true docility, stood 1 [See Byron's The Prisoner <if Chillon :— " A small green isle, it seem'd no more, •Scarce broader than my dungeon floor ; But in it there were three small trees," etc.] every morning, to be animated for the highest duties... | |
 | 1910 - 542 páginas
...the white-wall'd distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down; And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view...seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 páginas
...the white-wall'd distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down; And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view;...seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1909 - 160 páginas
...white-walled distant town, 340 And whiter sails go skimming down ; And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view ; A small green isle it seemed no more, sa Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess, Henry Nichols Sanborn - 1909 - 324 páginas
...white-walled distant town, And whiter sails go skimming down ; 340 And then there was a little isle,0 Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view; A small green isle it seemed no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, 345 But in it there were three tall trees, And... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1909 - 420 páginas
...piled high against the cabin. 19. Many a tale is lost in telling. 20. And then there was a little isle Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view; x A small green isle, it seemed no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon door, But in it there were... | |
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And then there was a little isle Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view ; A small green isle, it seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it... 
