Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue... Autumn Holidays of a Man of Business - Page 17by John Ashton (of Manchester.) - 1876 - 113 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Roscoe - 1830 - 594 pages
...RUINS, ditto. VlONETT*— CONSTANTINE'S ARCH, ROME. M< GENEVA. Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The...Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue. BYRO.V. THE city of Geneva claims the distinction of high antiquity. It is frequently mentioned by... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...Alpine snow, (17) Imperishably pure beyond all things below. Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The...Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue : There is too much of man here, to look through With a fit mind the might which I behold ; But soon... | |
| William Rae Wilson - 1831 - 812 pages
...with beautiful pebbles. Of this lovely lake it may be said that — It Woos me with its crystal face; The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect, in such trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue. Although it is undoubted that, during... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...with its crystal face. The mirror where the stars and monntains view The stillness of their aspeet in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hne: There is too mnch of man here, to look throngh With a fit mind the might which I hehold; Bnt soon... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...snow,'7 Imperishably pure beyond all things below. LXVIII. Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, ' The mirror where the stars and mountains view The...Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue : There is too much of man here, to look through With a fit mind the might which I behold ; But soon... | |
| 1832 - 780 pages
...on our way to Villeneuve, " as with a noiseless wing." " Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The...Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue." Martigny shall be our head-quarters in my next. (To be continued.) ART. III. Remarks on certain Gardens... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...snow,1' Imperishably pure beyond all things below. LXVIII. Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The...Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue : There is too much of man here, to look through With a fit mind the might which I behold ; But soon... | |
| 1832 - 778 pages
...on our way to Villeneuve, " as with a noiseless wing." " Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The...Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue." Martigny shall be our head-quarters in my next. (To be continued.) ART. III. Remarks on certain Gardens... | |
| Thomas Dyke (the younger.) - 1834 - 380 pages
...accommodation. CHAPTER XL LAUSANNE-GENEVA, AND ITS LAKE. ' Lake Letnan woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The...Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue. Darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep—" BYRON. LAUSANNE is an agreeable place... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 698 pages
...if the poet have spoken truly, is not very feculent:— " Luke Leman wooes me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The...their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields ot their far height and hue." the colours in question.* We know that the icebergs of the polar seas... | |
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