 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole , O'er the dark trees a yellower...verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head j Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1825 - 298 pages
...exulting sat in order round, And heaming fires illumin'd all the ground. A s when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a hreath disturhs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Arouna her throne the... | |
 | S. Treeby - Astronomy - 1826 - 244 pages
...described by Pope in his translation of the Iliad of Homer: , ' V . 3 •. » O ^ 3 e (J O M/..'1. When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not...cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne (he vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole. O'er the dark trees a yellow verdure... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Epic poetry - 1826 - 628 pages
...Eighth Iliad, in which Homer compares the watch-fires of the Trojans to the stars in the firmament: When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene. Pope's amplification may, perhaps, be pardoned, since every line is beautiful. Still it is a hazardous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...priest, hut rich without a fanlt. CONCLliSION OF BOOR VIII. T. 687. As when the moou, refulgent lamp 0 hreath disturhs the deep serene, And not a clond o'ercasts the solemu scene ; Around her throue the... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...and all was light. Pope's Works. NIGHT. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's pure azure spreads her sacred light; When not a breath...unnumbered gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellow verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head : Then shine the vales, the rocks in... | |
 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...Almighty hand. 175 Moon, that now meets the orient sun, now fly'st, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...And beaming fires illumin'd all the ground. As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heav'ns clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...the watch fires in the Trojan camp ? "• As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercast the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the... | |
 | 1829 - 434 pages
...tifrrtu dirTjif yry&t t\ TI $§(»« trafaif — II. viii. 555. ui, As when the moon, refulgent lamp 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,... | |
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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 unnumber'd gild... 
