| First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...every mountain's head. Then shine the vales — the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory hursts from all the skies • The conscious swains, rejoicing...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." MOTHER. All this is very true ; but we mean only the light she receives from the sun, and which is... | |
| 1829 - 440 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing polo, O'er the dark trees a yellow verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. The poems differ, too, not only in their character, but in their artificial construction. The time... | |
| 1829 - 434 pages
...shine the vales, tho rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies, The conseious swains rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. The poems differ, too, not only in their character, but in their artificial construction. The time... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - Albania - 1830 - 550 pages
...solemn scene , Around her throne the vivid planets roll. And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing polo, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip...sight Eye the blue vault and bless the useful light. II. »iii. Pope's Transl. As the time approached for retiring to rest we returned to the convent, but... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Thru shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rue, bouring eyes I roll'd; In vain ! the dismal dungeon,...monster, and confounds the sight. Now through the rocks So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long... | |
| T. S.. Hughes - Albania - 1830 - 546 pages
...And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head , Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A Bood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious...sight Eye the blue vault and bless the useful light. II. viii. Pop«'s Trans!. As the time approached for retiring to rest we returned to the convent, but... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conecious r the duy.' While they were thus employed— it was on the last of July — a t So ninny flamea before proud Ilion blnze, And lighten glimmering Xauthus with their rays ; The long... | |
| Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long... | |
| 1833 - 444 pages
...unnumbered gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light, POPE. Nor have the sacred writers been unobservant of this 'bright "sovereign of the shades." The patriarch... | |
| James Augustus St. John - Egypt - 1834 - 594 pages
...And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." CCCLXIL Our guides, wrapped, like Moggrebyns, in white burnooses, tripped lightly before us, laughing... | |
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