 Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling...  Solitude: - Page 113by Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1804 - 330 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. The figurative expreffions, throws, and breathes, and browner horror, are, I verily believe, fome of... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pages
...prefence faddens all the fcene, " Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry " green, " Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the *' woods." It is candidly and juftly obferved by the eflayift fo often mentioned, that the figurative expreffions,... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flon-'r, and darkens ev'ry green,. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 400 pages
...gloomy prefence iaddens all the fcene, Shades every, flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. . Yet Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1791 - 472 pages
...gloomy prelence faddens all the fcene, Shades every flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, <. And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey! Death, only death, can break... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1792 - 586 pages
...to the fpot } and imagination, with all its excurlive powers, feeks not to wander beyond the fcene. Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods. • To view thefe fcenes tolerably, is a bufinefs of Tome days j and fuch is the climate,... | |
 | James Roach - 1792 - 284 pages
...gloomy prefence iaddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a "browner horror on the woods. Yet here forever, ever mufl I flay ; Sad proof how -well a lover can obey ! Death, only death; can... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1793 - 710 pages
...to the fpot j and imagination, with all its excurfive powers, feeks not to wander beyond the fcene. Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods. To view thefe fcenes tolerably, is a bufmefs of ibme days ; and fuch is the climate... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1794 - 250 pages
...prefence faddcns all the fcene, i " Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, " Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the woods." If it were not very difficult to be angry with fuch a poet as Pope, particularly after having juft... | |
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