 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
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 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... | |
 | 1840 - 652 pages
...yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain with its azure hue. Thus with... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...as distant as the stars, would seem As marvelous as they ;" and Campbell's often-quoted couplet, " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue !" Or who that reads the lines, " There is in nature nothing mean or base, But only as our baseness... | |
 | Joshua Horner - 1841 - 162 pages
...bare craggs did not offend the eye ; but, from their great distance, added solemnity to the scene. 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view* And robes the mountain in its azure hue. From where we stood, one of the hills near the foot of Mont Blanc, appeared, in the distance, to be... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...Hill. • Lord Byron asks, (vol. vl. p. 366.) " la not tbi> the original of Mr. Campbell's far-famed, by terrors unsubdued, They with redoubling force their task pursued. And now the bus" ? We answer for Mr. Campbell, decidedly not !] ALLAN RAMSAY. (Born, 1«B8. Dltd, 17970 THE personal... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 332 pages
...Why do those cliffs of shadowy lint appear More aweet than all the landscape smiling near?— "Tie distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure line. Thus, with delight we linger tn survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 pages
...lo redress the miseries of their race, and to take vengeam'e on the violators of justice and mercy. 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 ezure hue. Thus, with... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 pages
...hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sk j 1 Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet...in its azure hue. Thus, with delight we linger to surrey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar, each dim - discovered scene More... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
...With the bee of nature, the real visitor of the flowers, this Is Impossible. If it be true that: 'Tin distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain In its azure hue, it would also appear that it is remoteness from actual fact which has enabled the theorists to crown... | |
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