 Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.  The Idler in Italy - Page 288by Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - 1803 - 162 pages
...sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. B Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 pages
...sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?.... 'Tis Distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promis'cl joys of life's unmeasur'd way... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1806 - 220 pages
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 | James Johnson - 1807 - 430 pages
...with the sky ? Why do those cliiis of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the ocean smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue!" As this important settlement is often touched at by our ships on their way to and from... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
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 | Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - 1812 - 648 pages
...Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear, More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?— • "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey, The promised joys of life's unmeasured way;... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
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 | 1821 - 732 pages
...coarse way— The present's still a cloudy day." " Is not this the original of the far-famed — " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ?" " To return once more to the sea. Let any one look on the long wall of Malamocco,... | |
 | Fabius (pseud.) - 1821 - 112 pages
...The present's still a cloudy day." « Is not this," you ask, " the original of the far-famed—" " Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ?" The question,*my Lord, might well admit of a negative answer ; but if the six fines... | |
 | 1822 - 136 pages
...coarse way — The present 's still a cloudy day." Is not this the original of the far-famed — " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ?" To return once more to the sea. Let any one look on the long wall of Malamocco, which... | |
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