 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
 | 1814 - 698 pages
...shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head: Then shine the vales : the rocks in prospect rite : A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious...•' Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. POPE. Preface, Vol. I. p. xxii. " A« u As beautiful the stars shine out in heaven .Around the splendid... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 548 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 the skies t The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." Here,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 208 pages
...verdure shed, And tip with silver — ev'ry mountain's head ; — Then shine the vales — the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory — bursts from...the blue vault — and bless the useful light. the Poets. The unambitious ballad-measure jn which it is written, has not only had a particular time and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...yellower verdure shed, And tipt 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. Here are the planets rolling round the moon; here is the pole gilt and glowing with stars; here are... | |
 | Louis-Pierre Siret - 1815 - 198 pages
...yellower verdure shedj And tip with" silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales , the racks in prospect rise , A flood of glory bursts from all...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. • (a) Pope'e Homer ; Iliad book УШi f г v DIALOGU E'S FAMILIERS. FAMILIAR DIALOGUES. 4vJ^т Dialogue.... | |
 | William Melmoth - 1815 - 314 pages
...silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise» A flood of glory bunts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. I fear the enthusiastick admirers of Homer would look upon me with much indignation, were they to hear... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...yellower yerdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry 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 ILIAD. A WINTER PIECE. IT was a winter's evening, and fast came down the snow, And keenly o'er... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 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. Nor have the Sacred Writers been unobservant of this bright ' sovereign of the shades '.' The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospects rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ;...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pages
...a yellow verdure spread, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head. Then shme the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies. The conscious swains, rejoicing in the night, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many (lames before proud Ilion blaze, And... | |
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