...suent until the shadows around us deepened, and gray twilight stole noiselessly over the scene : ' A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was. Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; Aud of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." THOMSON. What...

...HOLLOW. (FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.) A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;...And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flashing round a summer sky. Cattle of Indolence. IN the bosom of one of the spacious coves which indent...

...HOLLOW. (FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.) A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;...And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flashing round a summer sky. Castle of Indolence. IN the bosom of one of the spacious coves which indent...

...that precede the grand climacteric of life; a cheerful haunt, encircled with an ever gentle train ' Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a Rummer sky. There, eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,...

...DIEDRICK KNICKERBOCKER. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was. Of dreams that wave before lhe half-shot eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass. For ever flushing; round a summer sky. CASTLE OF tNDoLKHGK. In the bosom of one of those spacious coves whichindent the eastern shore of the...

...spy, With the half-shut eye," &c.— Tkt Monastery. Also by Thomson, in The Cailte of Indolence: " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye." Wordsworth's ballad of The Reverie of Poor Susan, is a light, but perfect, illustration of this mood...

...And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer-sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,...

...out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye...that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." THOMSON. Reader ! get thee into the fields and woods, and enjoy these " dreams that wave before the...

...The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to How. A -pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, o Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And...in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer-sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,...

...Thompson's beautiful lines, from his " Castle of Indolence," occurred to me, and I whispered to myself, " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was; Of dreams that...clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky !" I think it is Fontaine that says, " J'ai toujours cru, et le crois encore, quo le sornmcil est une...