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
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape...lends enchantment to the view, And robes the 'mountain with its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...passage suggested the well known lines near the beginning of Campbell's " Pleasures of Hope:" — " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view. And robes the mountain in its azure hue." As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which, to those who journey near, Barren,... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...more univera interest than the prevalence of rain in a country. It is not in landscapes only that 1 Distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." The same kind of illusion takes effect also in t». moral world. The historical events, and the point.-... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...will strike out new fields, and view itself, its Creator, and the Universe from new positiont. HOPE. ' Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear, More sweet than all the landscapes shining nf.ar. Tis distance lends enchantment TO the view, And robes the mountain in its... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 pages
...norx. Why do those cliffs of shadow)' tint appear. More sweet than all the lamlirapcs shining near! Tic distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its n?4ire hue ! Thus with delight we tin?(*r to survey The pronrs'd joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus... | |
| Mrs. Marshall - 1846 - 150 pages
...below, Why to yon mountain turns the lingering eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky I Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 1 'Tig distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with... | |
| Charles Foote Gower - 1847 - 208 pages
...glittering hills bclow, "Why to yon mountains turns the musing eye "Whose sun-bright summits mingle with the sky ? "Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint...appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ':'" CAMPBELL. MY readers will pardon me for having so suddenly shaken off the chill, cold garb of... | |
| John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 184 pages
...mirage that is formed on the summer horizon, which, as you near it, dissolves and melts away. " 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." The Tower, including the several buildings, extends over a surface of twelve acres. The large square... | |
| Hamilton Lanphere Smith - 1848 - 336 pages
...59.36 60.44 62.06 60.80 64.76 68.54 69.98 72.32 77.72 78.08 81.86 CHAPTER V. , . Optical Phenomena. " Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint, appear More sweet...the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Campbell. IN the present chapter we shall describe and explain the general optical appearance of the... | |
| Cassius Marcellus Clay - 1848 - 550 pages
...with Wirt, "Objects loom large at a distance ; " or, in more poetical language, with Campbell, " 'Tia distance lends enchantment to the view. And robes the mountain in its azure hue," for, at a social party at L.'s I met many literary persons whom I had long known through their writings,... | |
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