Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near i — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain... The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 2901844Full view - About this book
| James Rennie - 1833 - 228 pages
...»a Savoy. Campbell accordingly is scientifically correct (a rare thing in poetry,) when he says, " Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." PLBASURES OF HOPE. That the air has considerable weight, is known to every body who has felt the wind... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 440 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 euros the... | |
| James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pages
...bright arch the glittering fields below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs...the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." I have some doubt, however, whether it is to mere distance we are to attribute this attraction which... | |
| Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1836 - 610 pages
...distant mountains in their faint, blue outlines, might in the words of a kindred spirit, exclaim — "Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near t 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue, " And if a... | |
| 1836 - 388 pages
...hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky 1 Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? — 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus,... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...sunbright summit mingles with the sky I Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than nil the landscape smiling near? — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain of its azure hue. Thus with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 446 pages
...same 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 curbs the Adriatic,... | |
| Isaac William Stuart - 1836 - 234 pages
...invites him to short repose beneath its scented shades. In learning it is not distance but approach that "Lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Is it not intellectual feasting to read with understanding the classic writers in their native tongues,... | |
| 1836 - 514 pages
...mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky? 15 К 2 Why do those clifls of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near t— "Г is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus,... | |
| James Low - 1836 - 350 pages
...mtending planter should reflect with the poet* whose immortal verse harmonizes with our subject, that " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, " And robes the mountain in a spicy hue." His hand having fairly grasped the ploughman's ribands, it is to be hoped that his mind... | |
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