 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1837 - 434 pages
...coarse way — The present's still a cloudy day." Is not this the original of the far-famed — " "J'is 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... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1838 - 440 pages
...the scene ; all of which tended to impress upon our mind the much admired sentiment of Campbell, " "Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 7 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." P. THE SOLDIERS'... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1838 - 456 pages
...the scene ; all of which tended to impress upon our mind the much admired sentiment of Campbell, " Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 7 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." P. THE SOLDIERS'... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 pages
...bright arch the glittering hills belo%v, 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. Campbell. INDUSTRY AND LUXURY. EVERY thing in the world is purchased by labour ; and our passions are... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eve, Whose sunlit summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of...enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its aiure hue. Thus, with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus,... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pages
...with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunlit summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of...tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling 'Tie distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in Us azure hue. Thus, with delight... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 394 pages
...ramparts to-day, I was reminded of the truth of Campbell's lines in the " Pleasures of Hope:"— " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in her azure hue." For these mountains, so " beautifully blue " in the distance, are, when seen near,... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pages
...ramparts to-day, I was reminded of the truth of Rogers' lines in the " Pleasures of Memory : " — ' Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in her azure hue. For this chain of mountains, so " beautifully blue " in the distance, are, when seen... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1840 - 544 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 is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." And, if a... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...twilight lustre. It is this colouring which makes it seem so much more delightful than the present. Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. The far-off landscape is not more lovely to the corporeal sight than are distant objects to the inward... | |
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