| Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...unnumbered gild the glowing pole; o'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, and tip with silver every mountain's head ; then shine the vales, the rocks...sight, eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. t When the battle was ended, the stranger disappeared ; and no person knew whence he had come, nor... | |
| Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1834 - 598 pages
...And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." CCCLXII. Our guides, wrapped, like Moggrebyns, in white burnooses, tripped lightly before us, laughing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head : Then shine the vales — the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So ma,ny flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering.Xanthus with their rays; The long... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head : Then shine the vales — the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light, « So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rajs; The long... | |
| English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...CYNTHIA. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night. O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light, The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." Pori PALE regent of the midnight sky, Whose soften'd beam allows the gaze Of the wan lover's fixed... | |
| Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious shepherds glorying in the sight, Eye the blue vault and bless the useful light. And now let vocal strains with martial sounds, Ascend your court till all your court rebounds ; While... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...Jmontege with his harmless marmot. . MOONLIGHT. WHEN the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. Snow.— The Torrent. 43 r , SNOW. WHEN highest Jove his sharp artillery forms, And opes his cloudy... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'iy monatain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. POPE'S HoMtR. How beautiful is night ! Л dewy fre»hnesa fills the silent air, Ко rout obscures,... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 472 pages
...from all the skies. The conscious swains, rejoicing at the sight, Shepherds gazing with delight, 11. The conscious swains , rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and number every light, And bless the vivid light glorious 12. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful... | |
| United States - 1807 - 442 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trebs a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." In the first of these quotations the mind is presented with every image, that can deform and debase... | |
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