| Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...lose their life ; let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockles instead of barley. When the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, o'er heaven's clear...sacred light ; when not a breath disturbs the deep soreue, and not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scone; around her throne the vivid planets roll, and stars... | |
| Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1834 - 598 pages
...— " The troops exulting sate in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear...Around her throne the vivid planets roll And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...has so finely translated, or rather paraphrased in the following lines: As when the moon, reful gent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her...Around her. throne the vivid planets roll, And stars nnnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip wiih silver... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...combat sought, A wealthy pricit, but rich without a fault. Coniluiion of Book VIII. -&. 687As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| Richard Warner - Wales - 1800 - 396 pages
...instance has excelled his original: < r As when the moon, resplendent lamp of night, «' Q.er heaven.s clear azure spreads her sacred light, " When not a...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, " And stars unnumber.d gild the glowing pole 5 " O.er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, " And tip with silver... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...^ wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. Conclusion Conclution of Book VIII. */. 68T. / As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light; When not a breuh disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the 5 lemn scene ; Around her throne the... | |
| Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...From gilded roofs an artificial day. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's pure azure spreads her sacred light .; When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| 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...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1806 - 288 pages
...too !" She knocked at the cottage window — still no answer. " All silent as night ! said she — " When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, " And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene." — Angelina, as she repeated these lines, stood with her back to the cottage window: the window opened,... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er hcav'n's clear azure spreads hcrsacntd light, When not » breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her thione the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbcrM gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower... | |
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