 | England - 1839 - 876 pages
...glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunlit summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling 'Tie distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in Us azure hue. Thus, with delight... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 394 pages
...ramparts to-day, I was reminded of the truth of Campbell's lines in the " Pleasures of Hope:"— " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in her azure hue." For these mountains, so " beautifully blue " in the distance, are, when seen near,... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pages
...ramparts to-day, I was reminded of the truth of Rogers' lines in the " Pleasures of Memory : " — ' Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in her azure hue. For this chain of mountains, so " beautifully blue " in the distance, are, when seen... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do thosa cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Women - 1840 - 544 pages
...distant mountains, in their faint, blue outlines, might, in the words of a kindred spirit, exclaim, "Why do those cliffs, of shadowy tint, appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." And, if a... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...twilight lustre. It is this colouring which makes it seem so much more delightful than the present. 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. The far-off landscape is not more lovely to the corporeal sight than are distant objects to the inward... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...twilight lustre. It is this colouring which makes it seem so much more delightful than the present. Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. The far-off landscape is not more lovely to the corporeal sight than are distant objects to the inward... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...twilight lustre. It is this colouring which makes it seem so much more delightful than the present. Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. The far-off landscape is not more lovely to the corporeal sight than are distant objects to the inward... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain with its azure hue. Thus with... | |
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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... 
