 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. POPE'S Translation of the Iliad. LION AND HORSE FIGHT. A NOBLEMAN in the early part of the reign of... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory hursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicmg in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the recks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. Morning sounds. — BEATTIE. But who the melodies of morn can tell ? The wild brook babbling down the... | |
 | 1824 - 596 pages
...head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies. The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. JUiail, Bmk Bit.. Oh ! happy state, when souls each other draw, When love is liherty, and nature law... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." Axow. EVENING THOUGHTS ON DEATH. From " Jiowring's Matins and Vespers," THE good man dies — it grieves... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 pages
...head, Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." To the preference which Melmoth claims for the translation of this passage, over the original, an admirer... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...vales, the rocks in prospect ri^e, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious strains rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. Milton's description, we see, leaves off, where Homer's begins; and though the quotation is somewhat... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...head; Then shine the vales, the rock* in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies: The conscious swains rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and ties* the useful light. Milton's description, we see, leaves off, where Homer's begins; and though... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 396 pages
...head: Then shine the vales; the rocks in prospect rise; A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. — Iliad v iii. I transcribe these lines, because Mr Pope says they exhibit, in the original, the... | |
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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; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and... 
