The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 43by John Wilson - 1842Full view - About this book
| John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...Leman, in a Storm. "Thy sky i$ changed ! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, vhe rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...inefficiently painted : " The sky is chang'd ! and such a change ! Oh night And storm, and darkness, ye are wond'rous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ?" Surely this is extremely affected, and the simile as illplaced and unnatural as possible : what... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...painted: " The sky is chang'd! and such a change! Oh night And storm, and darkness, ye are uond'rous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a <Lirk eye in woman ?" Surely this is extremely affected, and the simile as illplaced and unnatural... | |
| England - 1838 - 884 pages
...— " Oh ! night, And storm and darkness, ye ore wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as it the light Of a dark eye in woman !!!" There are some...emotion of grandeur was desiring nothing but the truth. " Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling craga among, Leaps the live thunder " is glorious ; but,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...prayer ! xcn. The slcy is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, 2* And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength , as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone... | |
| John William Polidori, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, John Mitford - English fiction - 1819 - 94 pages
...his own breast. The sky is changed ! — and such a change ; Oh, night ! And storm and darkness, ye are wond'rous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 404 pages
...his own breast. The sky is changed ! — and such a change ; oh ! night! And storm and darkness, ye are wond'rous strong , Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among , Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...and Defence. * * * * * The sky is changed ! and such a change ! Oh Night, And Storm, and Darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! — not from one... | |
| A. Yosy - 1823 - 574 pages
...viewed from such a place. " The sky is changed! and such a change: Oh, night And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong; Yet lovely In your strength, as is the light Of pardon to the spirit! Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder!... | |
| James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 pages
...rested there ." " The sky is chang'd ! — and such a change ! O night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ." Nature, as if wearied of Jier long-continued smiling aspect, puts it aside for a time, and appears... | |
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