 | Henry Moses - India - 1750 - 314 pages
...sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene. Around her throne the vivid planets roll. And stars...shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head." Departure of day. Rapid advance of night. Indian nights peculiar. Deserted roads. Sepoy guards and... | |
 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...sacred light ; when not a breath disturbs the deep soreue, and not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scone; around her throne the vivid planets roll, and stars...sight, eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. t When the battle was ended, the stranger disappeared ; and no person knew whence he had come, nor... | |
 | Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1834 - 598 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." CCCLXII. Our guides, wrapped, like Moggrebyns, in white burnooses, tripped lightly before us, laughing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...cloud o'ercasts the solemn -scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower...ma,ny flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering.Xanthus with their rays; The long reflection of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. Snow.— The Torrent. 43 r , SNOW. WHEN highest Jove his sharp artillery forms, And opes his cloudy... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'iy monatain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. POPE'S HoMtR. How beautiful is night ! Л dewy fre»hnesa fills the silent air, Ко rout obscures,... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...clond o'ercasts the solemn scene; 690 Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And Man unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower...and bless the useful light. So many flames before prond Iliou blaae, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long reflections of the distant... | |
 | United States - 1807 - 442 pages
...her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trebs a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." In the first of these quotations the mind is presented with every image, that can deform and debase... | |
 | Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1808 - 476 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head. Then shine the vales ; the rocks...swains rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue- vault, ar.<} bless the useful tight. POM, IUAB Yin. now prevails, which depresses the animal spirits, and... | |
 | Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1808 - 476 pages
...unn'irnbcr'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head. Then shine the vales ; the rocks...from all the skies ; The conscious swains rejoicing jn the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. Port, ILIAD »m. ho* prevails, which... | |
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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... 
