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
| 1795 - 614 pages
...breath Dwells here, and a dumb quiet next to Jeati.' REV. Avc. 1795. G g Deepeiu Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods*.' Thofe of our readers who are fond of the delicacies of poetical expreifion, and who love to trace them... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1795 - 468 pages
...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." POPE, Elitija to Aldard, ver. 165. WHILE the foul expands, and the mind becomes ferene and free, you... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...here, and a dumb quiet next to death* But fafe repofe without an air of breath Deepens the murmi!i - of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods*.' Thofe of our readers who are fond of the delicacies of poetical exprrfiio", and who love to trace them... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.'' Eloisa. We might here challenge all such unbelieving critics and commentators to point out two lines... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 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. 1 70 Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 428 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. 170 Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
| 1798 - 554 pages
.... " A death-like filence, and a dread repofe : " Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcenc, " Sbuta every flower, and darkens every green; " Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, " And Lrcttui a binmtr barrcr on In this place every thing is proper, co.ii':ftent, and affecting. The oihcc,... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1800 - 410 pages
...Frefcati, by the borders of the fmall lake of Nemi, which lies in a deep valley, fo clofely fhckered by mountains and forefts, that the winds are fcarcely...floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the woods." POPE — Eloifa to Ahelartl. I 3 BUT BUT how the foul expands, and every thought becomes ferene and... | |
| 1804 - 552 pages
...gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens cv'ry green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. ' These lines have been happily imitated by Dr Darwin in hf« own manner ; that is, with a view solely... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods*. Pope had now obtained a great and deserved reputation, but his efforts had been hitherto attended with... | |
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