 | William Henry Bayley Webster - Science - 1857 - 334 pages
...Night ; and then she looks so lovely, enthroned in the heavens, as to be an object of admiration. " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole. 164 HORSLEY'S EXAMINATION OF LUNAR INFLUENCE. O'er the dark trees... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 pages
...their life ; let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockles instead of barley. 171. When the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, o'er heaven's clear...around her throne the vivid planets roll, and stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; o'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, and tip with silver... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...ground, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light f When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 746 pages
...is hardly to be surpassed for beauty and fidelity. Yet many prefer the elaborate paraphrase of POPE. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll. And stars unnumbcr'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1858 - 412 pages
...merely exaggerated; it is rendered altogether unnatural:— As, when the moon, refulgent lamp of night 1 O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with siher... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 454 pages
...progress of the moon in her * " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 744 pages
...elaborate paraphrase of POPE. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure sprends her sacred light. When not a breath disturbs the deep...not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throno the vivid planets roll. And stars unnumbcr'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower... | |
 | Sarah Jane Stansfield - Punctuality - 1859 - 202 pages
...of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the sweet serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Bible and science - 1860 - 476 pages
...give Pope's splendid translation, although some might prefer the more accurate version of Cowper : ' As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...Homer to guide him, the lines have been justly condemned as throughout false and contradictory : — "As when the moon — refulgent lamp of night —...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tipt with silver... | |
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As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild... 
