| Maria Edgeworth - Boys - 1822 - 274 pages
...turning over the pages, I saw some beautiful lines about the moon, Mary, which I got by heart for you." " 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 serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn... | |
| Charles Butler - Autobiography - 1822 - 706 pages
...white barley and oats, and awaited the fair" throned morning." Pope thus translates the simile : " 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... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...the rising morn. As when in stillness of the silent night, As when the moon in all her lnstre bright; As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her silver light. pure spreads sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stood, And o'er its... | |
| William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...liquid murmur pours ; And lulls the silent scene to more profound repose. MOONLIGHT. Pope's Homer. 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... | |
| Rev. W. Hutton - Natural history - 1822 - 306 pages
...never-failing friend of man." .' Each night we die, each day are born anew." CHAP. XVIL . THE MOON. " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light. Then shine the vales ; the rocks in prospect rise; A flood of glory bursts... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...which, for its solemnity, pathos, and picturesque imagery, can never be sufficiently admired ! — As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads tier sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And uot a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
| Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...which these lines of Homer can apply with greater exactness than to a West Indian summer's night :— " 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... | |
| James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 396 pages
...Full-orb'd, the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets oft' the face of things. MILTON. f 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... | |
| Charles Butler - Musicians - 1825 - 378 pages
...white barley anfl oats, and awaited the fair throned morning." I'ope thus translates the simile: " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred lightWhen not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...first the combat sought, A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. Conclusion of Book VIII. v. 687. " 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... | |
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