As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her 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 unnumber'd gild... The Retrospective Review - Page 1841821Full view - About this book
| Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...independent on those points or stops which the rules «f punctuation require. On the fourth. • -.1 • i When not a breath — disturbs the deep serene ; And not a cloud — o'ercas'ts the solemn sccue. Iliad. On the fifth : Where awful archra-'-inabe a no*n-day night, And the dim windows— shed... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Translating and interpreting - 1813 - 466 pages
...picture raised and improved by Mr Pope ! " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, " Oer heav ns clear azure spreads her sacred light: " When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, 1 • And not a cloud o'ercutts the solemn tcene ; " Around her throne the vivid planets roll, " And... | |
| Richard Clark - Madrigals, English - 1814 - 530 pages
...377 GLEE for Five Voices. W. HonsLEY, MB "WHEN the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; "When not a...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellow verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in... | |
| Sir Charles Abraham Elton - English poetry - 1814 - 458 pages
...boundless blue; but ether, open'd wide, All glitters, and the shepherd's heart is cheer'd. COWPEK. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene : Around ber throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees... | |
| English literature - 1814 - 698 pages
...open'd wide, All glitters, and the shepherd's heart is cheer'd. COWPER. Preface. Vol. I. p. xxi. " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...light: When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And riot a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unn'uraber'd... | |
| Sir Charles Abraham Elton - English poetry - 1814 - 566 pages
...boundless blue; but ether, open'd wide, All glitters, and the sheph«rd's heart is cheer'd. COWPEK. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night. O'er heaven's clear azure spreads Jher sacred light : When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cluuil o'ercasts the solemn... | |
| 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 - 1815 - 558 pages
...glitters, and the shepherd's heart is cheer'd. — Cowper. How has Pope rendered this description ? As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's...stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark tre£ sa yellower verdure shed, And tipt with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales,... | |
| Louis-Pierre Siret - English language - 1815 - 198 pages
...(••-• A beautiful night-piece (a). i When the Moon , refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...o'ercasts the solemn scene; •'•*-; Around her throue the vivid planets roll , And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole , O'er the dark trees a... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 208 pages
...Homer. The last may as well be quoted :— As when the moon— refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heav'n's clear azure — spreads her sacred light, When not...disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud— o'ercasts tin; solemn scene; Around her throne — the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd — gild the... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...milliner's door. BATH GUIDE. A COMPARISON. AS when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er Heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...gild the glowing pole. O'er the dark trees a yellower yerdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect... | |
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