 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flow'r, GHst'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by noon, Or glitt'ring star-light, — without thee is sweet. But wherefore all nightlong shine these... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 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 I have ever seen : which I rather mention,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 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... | |
 | James Andrew - English language - 1817 - 152 pages
...charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun 9 On this delightful land nor herb, fruit, flov/r, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With this her solemn...Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet." Milton. " But O, my muse, what numbers wilt thou find, To sing the furious troops in battle join'd.... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 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 Or glittering star light, without thee is sweet. ' Paradise Lost, b. 4. /. 634. What mean ye, that ye use this proverb,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ning with dew ; nsr fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by noon, Or glittering starlight, without three is sweet. Thus, at their shady lodge arriv'd, both stood,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 426 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...Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet." That I may not appear tedious, I shall only add two more instances of beautiful scenery in Theocritus.... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 348 pages
...delightful land : nor herb, fruit, (lower, 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 I have ever seen: which I rather mention,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showeNor 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 e... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...delighful land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ning with dew, nor fragrance after shower?, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon Or glittering star light. without thee is sweet. faradise Lost, b. iv. I. 634. As I live, saith the Lord God, ye... | |
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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... 
