 | James Low - Agriculture - 1836 - 350 pages
...mtending planter should reflect with the poet* whose immortal verse harmonizes with our subject, that " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, " And robes the mountain in a spicy hue." His hand having fairly grasped the ploughman's ribands, it is to be hoped that his mind... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 332 pages
...hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet...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 afar,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Bookbinding - 1837 - 360 pages
...hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky * Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet...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 afar,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1837 - 434 pages
...coarse way — The present's still a cloudy day." Is not this the original of the far-famed — " "J'is 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 the... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet...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 afar,... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Autographs - 1838 - 456 pages
...the scene ; all of which tended to impress upon our mind the much admired sentiment of Campbell, " Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 7 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." P. THE SOLDIERS'... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - History - 1838 - 440 pages
...the scene ; all of which tended to impress upon our mind the much admired sentiment of Campbell, " "Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 7 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." P. THE SOLDIERS'... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...hills belo%v, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet...And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Campbell. INDUSTRY AND LUXURY. EVERY thing in the world is purchased by labour ; and our passions are the only... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 894 pages
...glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eve, Whose sunlit summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet...enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its aiure hue. Thus, with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...the musing eye*, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky* ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy teint appear' More sweet than all the landscape smiling...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... | |
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AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below. Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, "Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape... 
