...great effect may be attained by assigning the position of emphasis to something really emphatic. " *Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." The first line is a stroke of felicitous condensation ; the three abstract nouns are...

...on Man. 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. Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress,...

...please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air. And Campbell, at the commencement of the " Pleasures of Hope " : 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. DR. WILLIAM STEODE, Was bom about 1600. He was a Canon of Christ Church, and had the...

...please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air. And Campbell, at the commencement of the " Pleasures of Hope " : 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. DE. WILLIAM STRODE, Was born about 1600. He was a Canon of Christ Church, and had the...

...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 it appears that, in the two hundred years from Harry Porter to Thomas Campbell,...

...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 ' — and from it in particular the famous line ' 'Tis distance lends enchantment to...

...same coarse way— The present 's still a cloudy day." Is not this the original of the far-famed— M 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ?" To return once more to the sea. Let any 37 one look on the long wall of Malamocco,...

...57 Thy thumb is under my belt . . . . . . . . 36 Time and tide tarry (or wait) for no man . . . . 1 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue . . . . . . . . 33 'Tis easy to fall into trap, but hard to get out again . . 15 'Tis...

...respect. ALDO LEOPOLD, (1886-1948) US forester. A Sand Country Almanac, foreword (1949). Landscapes 1 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. THOMAS CAMPBELL, (1777-1844) Scottish poet. "The Pleasures of Hope," pt. 1, 1. 7-8 (1799)....

...Campbell, The Pleasures Of Hope, 1799, Part 1, 1. 7. In the first edition the relevant couplet reads, "Tis Distance lends enchantment to the view, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue." See Thomas Campbell. The Pleasures Of Hope; In TwoParts. With Other Poems. Edinburgh:...