10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DROWSIHEAD»
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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume 11: With ...
Ah, in good truth? and did the drowsihead 140 So suit, so soothe the learned
loving eye, That. 113| MS:hamlets §s crossed out and restored§ on the roads-
edge §altered to§ road-edge, much you P2:road-edge, nought you 117| MS:To
the ...
Robert Browning, Michael Bright, 2008
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Our Great (english) Writers ... Lectures ... with ...
The first canto, in which <the pleasing land of drowsihead» is described, is more
artistic than the second where the poet somewhat feebly denounces the
falseness of its enchantments. But how could it be otherwise? In the first
Thomson is ...
Love in Aboence....0:orge Eyre-Todd....1'he OIII'OW Citizen The lamp is lit, the fire
glows red, The storm roars over the roof; I am weary of weaving the drowsihead
Of thought into warp and woof. The music lies in the yellow light, I finger the ...
Love in Absence George Eyre-Todd The Glasgow Citizen The lamp is lit, the fire
glows red, The storm roars over the roof; I am weary of weaving the drowsihead
Of thought into warp and woof. The music lies in the yellow light, I finger the ivory
...
Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, 1891
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A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with ...
DROWSILY,drow'-zy-ly. ad. Sleepily, heavily; sluggishly, slothfully.
DROWSlNESS, drowflzy-nls. s. Sleepiness, heaviness with sleep.
DROWSIHEAD, drowfizy-hed. s. Sleepiness, inclination to sleep. DROWSY,
drowflzy. a. Sleepy, heavy with ...
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The House of the Seven Gables
These hours of drowsihead were the season of the old gentlewoman's
attendance on her brother, while Phoebe took charge of the shop; an
arrangement which the public speedily understood, and evinced their decided
preference of the ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2008
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A critical pronouncing dictionary
Sleepiness, heaviness with sleep. DROWSIHEAD, drou'ze-hid, s. Sleepiness,
inclination to sleep. DROWSY, drAu'ze, a. Sleepy, heavy with sleep, lethargick ;
lulling, causing sleep ; stupid, dull. To DRUB, drub, r. a. To thresh, to beat, to
bang.
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The Quarterly Magazine and Literary Journal of the United ...
The description of the poet is perfect : " A pleasing land of drowsihead it was, Of
dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that
pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that ...
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The House of the Seven Gables.:
These hours of drowsihead were the seasonofthe old gentlewoman's attendance
on her brother,while Phœbe took chargeof the shop; anarrangement which the
public speedily understood, and evincedtheir decided preference of the younger
...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2013
10
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
... this pleasant land of drowsihead, where a succession of mild, gentlemanly
persons for generations lived a tranquil, elegant, semi-sensual life, undisturbed
by Methodists, Ranters, Radical prints, and the Schoolmaster : — spare me but
this ...
William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1835
