 | William Stones (travel writer.) - 1870 - 286 pages
...the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands that were cov ered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable. islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...other appeared to me a vast ocean, planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flo^wers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered' with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious hahits, with garlands upon their heads, passing... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing... | |
 | American literature - 1871 - 730 pages
...the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could se« persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 232 pages
...other appeared to me a vast ocean, planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 232 pages
...directed my attention to a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. . . " These," said he, " are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the... | |
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I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. 
