| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1799 - 614 pages
...Whofe funbright fummit mingles with the fky ? Why do thofe cliffs of fhadowy tint appear More fiveet than all the landfcape fmiling near?— 'Tis diftance...enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ' Thus, with delight, we linger to furvey The promis'd joys of life's umne.'.fur'd way ; Thus,... | |
| 1799 - 614 pages
...do those cliffs of shadowytint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'Tib distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. • Thus, with delight, v.-c linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's nnmeasur'd way ; Thus,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?.... 'Tis Distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promis'cl joys of life's unmeasur'd way ; Thus, from... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1806 - 220 pages
...those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? — Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey. The promis'djoys of life's unmeasur'd way; IO Thus, from... | |
| James Johnson - Voyages and travels - 1807 - 430 pages
...Why do those cliiis of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the ocean smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue!" As this important settlement is often touched at by our ships on their way to and from India,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
...do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus, from... | |
| Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - Education - 1812 - 648 pages
...cliffs of shadowy tint appear, More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?— • "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey, The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from... | |
| England - 1839 - 894 pages
...do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from... | |
| 1821 - 732 pages
...The present's still a cloudy day." " Is not this the original of the far-famed — " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ?" " To return once more to the sea. Let any one look on the long wall of Malamocco, which curbs... | |
| Fabius (pseud.) - 1821 - 44 pages
...•...••• ,i.. ", "" far-famed — " • • i • . ••' <;f! . : .,.-.*1 " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, ,,, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ?" . •«- .-.-••• ;i :•• '. -.,*.fi The question, my Lord, might well admit of a negative... | |
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