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" How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. "
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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Esq. ...: Thalaba

Robert Southey - 1821 - 296 pages
...guerdon do obtayne. FAEBY QCKKN, B. 2. Can. 1. VOL. I. THALABA THE DESTROYER. THE FIRST BOOK. I. Jlow beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent...full-orb'd glory yonder Moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert-circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 9

Scotland - 1821 - 618 pages
...me ; and, pointing with his finger to the wide waste around, exclaimed in a wild impassioned tone, " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, no little cloud Breaks the whole serene of heaven : ' , In full orb'd glory the majestic moon Rolls...
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A tale of the olden time

Harrow boy - 1821 - 192 pages
...only at the gates of the castle; and their astonishment at his knowledge was mutual. 109 CHAPTER VIII. How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, no cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of Heaven : In full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1857 - 1196 pages
...filled the wide blue above, and covered as with a veil of transparent snow the yellow waste around .' " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the...of heaven. In full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine Hulls through the dark-blue depths. Beneath her steady ray, The desert circle spreads Like the round...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Ibid.— Winter. In sable pomp, with all her starry train, The night resumed her throne. Glover. O How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the...full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with...
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Historical and Literary Tour of a Foreigner in England and Scotland, Volume 2

Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 510 pages
...solemn graces of genuine epic composition. The poem opens with the following sweet picture : — " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, no little cloud Breaks the whole serene of heaven ; In full-orbed glory the majestic moon Rolls through...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 34

Classical philology - 1826 - 360 pages
...muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. And from Southey's Thalaba : — How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the...air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor itain Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue...
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Private Life; Or, Varieties of Character and Opinion, Volume 1

Mary Jane Mackenzie - English fiction - 1829 - 226 pages
...looked around, and, with a feeling of deep ant! quiet enjoyment, thought in the words of the poet — " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the...speck, nor stain Breaks the serene of heaven ; In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths : — How beautiful is night...
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Private Life; Or, Varieties of Character and Opinion, Volume 1

Mary Jane Mackenzie - English fiction - 1829 - 256 pages
...enjoyment, thought in the words of the poet — " How heautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the sllent air — No mist obscures. nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain Breaks the serene of heaven ; In futl-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths : — How heautiful is night...
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Destiny; Or, The Chief's Daughter, Volumes 1-2

Susan Ferrier - Highlands (Scotland) - 1831 - 508 pages
...enthusiasm for our mountain bard. Do you remember the exquisite opening of Thalaba ? ' How beauliful is night ! • A dewy freshness fills the silent air...full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths!'" " Such a description is quite illustrative of the night," said Florinda, carelessly,...
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