 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 1861821Full view - About this book
 | England - 1831
...Ami beaming fires illumin'd all the ground, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbcr'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817
...where that of Homer begins : As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night O'er heav'n's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 309 pages
...just and happy image of a moonlight sky : while it is difficult to determine whether iu the lines, "Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole," the sense, or the diction be the more absurd. My answer was ; that tho' I had derived peculiar advantages... | |
 | England - 1828
...Ambrosiame returns, and she is made again to feel the exquisite beauty of those lines of Homer and Pope— " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night* O'er Heaven's clear azure tneds her sacred light 1* We must not, however, be too severe on the world, whose chief fault, after... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820
...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...trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rooks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820
...fault. Conclusion of Book VIII. v. 687. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's cleat azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath...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... | |
 | 1820
...his harmless marmot. ORIGINAL, MOONLIGHT WHEN the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a...scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And Btars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with... | |
 | ...when the nioon, refulgent lamp of night, t , O'er Heav IT'S clear azure sheds her sacred light, Where not. a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, i' ,.\\'\, ji< ] o Tin // Pi. .• : . t • . Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820
...rising morn. As when in stillness of the silent night, As when the moon in all her lustre bright : As when the moon refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her silver light; pure spreads sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stood, And o'er its... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821
...whom their horse eat oats and hard white corn, And all did wilfully expect the silver-throned morn." Chapman. " The troops exulting sat in order round,...pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And dp with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of... | |
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