 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 412 pages
...scene ; not a Around her silver throne the planets glow, And stars unnumber'd trembling beams bestow : Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; Clear gleams of light o'er the dark trees are seen, o'er the dark trees a yellow sheds, O'er the... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 pages
...fair throned morning." Pope thus translates the simile : " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of light, 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 silver... | |
 | Charles Butler - Authors, English - 1824 - 368 pages
...fair throned morning." Pope thus translates the simile : " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of light, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light....Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing polo, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...beaming fires illumined all the ground, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's pure other scenes, unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...beaming fires illumined all the ground, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's pure tudied, and the Latin, at least, understood well,...with (and the more he knows the belter), that which unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | William Edward Simonds - English literature - 1900 - 510 pages
...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...shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head." In this description Pope rises to his highest reach of power ; but, truly, his verses are not Homer.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1903 - 636 pages
...thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy." — " Troilus and Cressida," act ii. , scene 2. " " As when the 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 ev'ry... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...And beaming fires illumin'd all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; 690 Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1903 - 644 pages
...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 ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 502 pages
...follows (Hues 687-698) : — "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...pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, have fallen into ; — these be they : — He says of Greece in the body of his book l— that it is... | |
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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... 
