 But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens...  Gli amori delle piante: poema con note filosofiche - Page 158by Erasmus Darwin - 1805 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long sounding aisles, aud intermingled, graves, Black Black melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens... | |
 | Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières Riccoboni - 1801 - 182 pages
...wearinefs which is the' moft infupportable evil of life. I am difpoied to fay with POPE'S Eloifa, " Here Melancholy sits, and round her throws " A death-like silence, and a dread repose : " Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, " Shades every Jiiwer, qnd darkens ev'ry green ; " Deepens... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 640 pages
...leaves, sure harbinger of spring: on a dark slab behind are inscribed these lines from Pope: Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose. Sir James led me to a seat, and taking both my hands within his, spoke to me thus: " I am born rich,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...But o'er the twilight groves, and dusky Caves, Long sounding isles, and intermingled graves, " Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green. " When it... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; . Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...But o'er the twilight groves, and dusky caves, Long sounding isles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every Bonier, and darkens every green. " When it... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pages
...tobe our own,' " Too often in regarding the countenance ol a slave, it may be observed that, " Dark melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ;" but throughout Mr. Duugan's happy gang the more striking features are those of mirth and glee :... | |
 | John Gustavus Lemaistre - Europe - 1806 - 498 pages
...slowly on, we saw nothing but trees heaped upon trees ; among which, in the words of Pope, " Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence and a dread repose. , * Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene. Shades ev'ry flow'v, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...passage, Mr. Gray's account of his journey to the Grande Chartreuse. Works 4to. p. 67. J Ver. 163. Black MELANCHOLY sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...: But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding isles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flow'r, and darkens every green, Deepens... | |
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