 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...shed, and tip with silver every mountain's head ; then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, a flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; the conscious...sight, eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. t When the battle was ended, the stranger disappeared ; and no person knew whence he had come, nor... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...fkies : 65 j The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light : So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And...lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long refleftions of the diftant fires 700 Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires. A thoufand piles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...fkies : 695 The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light : So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays t The long refleftions of the diflant f:res 700 Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires. A thoufand... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...the fides ; The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And...lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflexion of the diftant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires ; A thoufand piles the... | |
 | Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1834 - 598 pages
...shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." CCCLXII. Our guides, wrapped, like Moggrebyns, in white burnooses, tripped lightly before us, laughing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...the fkies ; The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And...lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflexion of the diftant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpircs : A thoufaud piles the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...die Ikies ; The confcious 1 wains, rejoicing in th« fight, Eye the blue vault, and Wefs the ufeful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And...lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflexion of the difbnt fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires : A tboufand piles the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...all the fkies : The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the Gght, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light : So many flames before proud Ilion blaze. And...Xanthus with their rays : The long reflections of the diftant fires Gleam un the walls, and tremble on the fpircs. A thoulatid piles the dufky horrors gild,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...the fkies : The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight. Eye the blue vault', and blef- the ufeful light : So many flames before proud Ilion blaze. And...Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections of the diftant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires. A thouland piles the dulky horrors gild,... | |
 | William Gilpin - England - 1798 - 414 pages
...inftead of retreating to Troy, he encamped under its walls in the field of battle, where Unnumbered flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering...Xanthus with their rays. The long reflections of the diftant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires. A thoufand piles the dufky horrors gild,... | |
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O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and... 
