 | Maria Edgeworth - Boys - 1822 - 274 pages
...turning over the pages, I saw some beautiful lines about the moon, Mary, which I got by heart for you." " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - Natural history - 1822 - 306 pages
...never-failing friend of man." .' Each night we die, each day are born anew." CHAP. XVIL . THE MOON. " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light. Then shine the vales ; the rocks in prospect rise; A flood of glory bursts... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...liquid murmur pours ; And lulls the silent scene to more profound repose. MOONLIGHT. Pope's Homer. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...her guilty race. Tlie troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumin'd 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 disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...which, for its solemnity, pathos, and picturesque imagery, can never be sufficiently admired ! — As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads tier sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And uot a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...which these lines of Homer can apply with greater exactness than to a West Indian summer's night :— " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | Charles Butler - Musicians - 1825 - 378 pages
...white barley anfl oats, and awaited the fair throned morning." I'ope thus translates the simile: " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred lightWhen not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 396 pages
...Full-orb'd, the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets oft' the face of things. MILTON. f As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | James M'Henry - Ireland - 1825 - 348 pages
...paused to gaze upon her, Mr. Carlow repeated the passage according to Pope's unrivalled translation : As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...first the combat sought, A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. Conclusion of Book viii. v. 687. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
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As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild... 
