 | Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1808 - 476 pages
...than to, a West Indian summer's night : — As when the Moan, refulgent lamp of night. O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a...Around her throne, the vivid planets roll, And stars unn'irnbcr'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1808 - 476 pages
...— As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night, o'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred 1 ight ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not...Around her throne, the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...transposed more of the beautiful than is in the original.... • " As when the moon, refulgent lauip of night, " O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her...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... | |
 | James Hare - God - 1809 - 412 pages
...transcendent display of celestial beauty, which the stars exhibit in the blue hemisphere on some fine night, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene. He allowed, and still allows, man to come into his presence at all times, and to praise and adore him,... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1809 - 342 pages
...eighth Book of the Iliad ; — ;I allude to the following moft exquifite landfcape of a moonlight night. As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of- night, O'er Heaven's clear azure fprcads her facred light, When not a breath difturhs the deep ferene, ": And not a cloud o'ercafts... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...combat soiisht, A wealthy priest, but rich without a- fault. i CONCLUSION 0» IOOK VIII. VEX. 68T. As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...first the combat sought, A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. CONCLUSION OF BOOK vin. v. 687. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...first the combat sought, A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. Conclusion of Book VIII. v. 687. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...first the combat sought, A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. Conclusion of Book VIII. v. 687. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...swell the dreadful tide. POPE'S HOMER. Wight, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heavVs clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumberM gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry... | |
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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... 
