 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...  The American Whig Review - Page 387edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 566 pages
...boundless blue; but ether, open'd wide, All glitters, and the sheph«rd's heart is cheer'd. COWPEK. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night. O'er heaven's clear azure spreads Jher sacred light : When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cluuil o'ercasts the solemn... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...glitters, and the shepherd's heart is cheer'd. — Cowper. How has Pope rendered this description ? As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's...stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark tre£ sa yellower verdure shed, And tipt with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales,... | |
 | Louis-Pierre Siret - 1815 - 198 pages
...(••-• A beautiful night-piece (a). i When the Moon , refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...o'ercasts the solemn scene; •'•*-; Around her throue the vivid planets roll , And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole , O'er the dark trees a... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 208 pages
...Homer. The last may as well be quoted :— As when the moon— refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heav'n's clear azure — spreads her sacred light, When not...disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud— o'ercasts tin; solemn scene; Around her throne — the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd — gild the... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...milliner's door. BATH GUIDE. A COMPARISON. AS when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er Heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole. O'er the dark trees a yellower yerdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 pages
...scene ; not a Around her silver throne the planets glow, And stars unnumber'd trembling beams bestow : Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; Clear gleams of light o'er the dark trees are seen, o'er the dark trees a yellow O'er the dark trees... | |
 | 1831 - 1008 pages
...Ami beaming fires illumin'd all the ground, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbcr'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pages
...where that of Homer begins : As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night O'er heav'n's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 312 pages
...just and happy image of a moonlight sky : while it is difficult to determine whether iu the lines, "Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole," the sense, or the diction be the more absurd. My answer was ; that tho' I had derived peculiar advantages... | |
 | 1828 - 964 pages
...Ambrosiame returns, and she is made again to feel the exquisite beauty of those lines of Homer and Pope— " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night* O'er Heaven's clear azure tneds her sacred light 1* We must not, however, be too severe on the world, whose chief fault, after... | |
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