 This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.  Old England: Its Scenery, Art, and People - Page 28by James Mason Hoppin - 1868 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning : silent, bare ; Ships,...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glitt'ring in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning : silent, bare, Ships,...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky . . . The river glideth at his own sweet will . . . And all that mighty heart is lying... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning : silent, bare, Ships,...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky . . . The river glideth at his own sweet will . . . And all that mighty heart is lying... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1835 - 746 pages
...the soul who could- pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ; This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 pages
...truthfulness of this great master's poetry more deeply than I did at the hour, of which I am now writing ; " Silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky ! All bright and glittering in the smokeless air ;"— and then, when I came to the... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...the comparative merit of sonnets. Composed upon Westminster Bridge. " Earth has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass...Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto^the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a. garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships,...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, — All bright and glittering in the smokeless nir. Never did sun more beautifully... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1838 - 508 pages
...s»iu! who emiM рак.« by A light so touching in it-i majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare. Ships, towers, domes, theatres, anil temple«, lie Opon unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...of soul who could pass by A sight to touching in Its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships,...domes, theatres and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the nnokeleu air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1896 - 324 pages
...three years old. MP regarding scene recalled the matchless verse: — This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships,...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Cab crossing bridge. After all, a little... | |
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