 O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and...  Littell's Living Age - Page 161855Full view - About this book
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 706 pages
...yellower verdure shed, "And tip with silver every mountain's head, " Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, " A flood of glory bursts from all..." Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." To the preference which Melmoth claims for the translation of this passage, over the original, an admirer... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales ; the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. MOON OBSCURED BY CLOUDS. Walter Scott. THE moon is in her summer glow, But hoarse and high the breezes... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. POPE'S Translation of the Iliad. LION AND HORSE FIGHT. A NOBLEMAN in the early part of the reign of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long... | |
 | J. R. (supercargo.) - 1822 - 132 pages
...trees a yellow verdure shed, And tip wilh silver every mountain-head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. 8th. — Light breezes from the NE and clear pleasant weather throughout. At day-light we hauled out... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays: The long reflections... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 520 pages
...a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all...sight, Eye the blue vault and bless the useful light." Frank repeated these lines as if he felt their spirit thoroughly. Mary was so much struck with them,... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...yellower verdure shed, And tin with silver ev'ry mountain's head : Then shine the vales ; the rocks in prospect rise ; A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swaius, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. POPE'S HOMER. By the... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 pages
...refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light. Then shine the vales ; the rocks in prospect rise; A flood of glory bursts from all the skies." i FROM the earth and the atmosphere we will novr ascend in our speculations, and, in our way to regions... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory hursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicmg in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long... | |
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