 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor wall by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet." The variety of images in this passage is infinite:-,pleasing ; and the recapitulation of each pavticnlar image, with a little varying of the... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 844 pages
...herb, fruit, flow'r, Glistening with dew, nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful Evening mild j nor silent Night. With this her solemn bird nor walk by Moon, Or glistering star-light, without theeis sweet 100 THE PORT FOLIO. 101 "Mr. WakefielH suggests, that Milton,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful Evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn...Moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers ,; Nor grateful Evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn...moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 662 pages
...delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after show'rs, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by Moon, Or glitt'ring star-light without thee is sweet" RECITATIVE. Thus talking, hand in hand, alone they pass'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Of glittering star.light — without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these ? for... | |
 | American periodicals - 1812 - 594 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn...of each particular image, with a little varying of the expression, makes one of the finest turns of words that we have ever seen. A part of this beautiful... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 464 pages
...herb, fiuit, flower, Glist'ning with dew ; nor fragrance after showers. ; Nor grateful evening mikT; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird; nor walk...moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. ' • - . Mil TO*, WHUST the eount Anselmo and Cornelius are pursuing their journey to Genoa, and from... | |
 | John Ovington - Marriage - 1813 - 168 pages
...fruit, flower, Clist'iiing with dew ; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild ; iur silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, wit/tout t/ice is sweet.' It depends upon the husband, in a great measure, to keep alive such delightful... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, 655 Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long sliiite llitst'?... | |
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... With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heaven her starry train : But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering... 
