 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...first, the famous description of the " refulgent lamp of night " which Pope has adapted from 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... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...NUMBEH OF THE THOJAN FIHES. Thus the brave Trojans and their leagued bands Struck on the shield of Ajax. 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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...among which the Trojan bivouac scene in the Iliad still stands peerless. " The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumin'd all the...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... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1878 - 596 pages
...their grace ; Proud Troy they hated, and her guilty race. The troops exulting sat in order round, 685 And beaming fires illumin'd all the ground. As when...refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breatii disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1878 - 88 pages
...Preface— he renders, albeit not closely, yet very beautifully, and truly withal to nature, thus : " 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... | |
 | 1878 - 440 pages
...been always admired in the translations — most especially in that of Pope — which is as follows: 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...poetry of a high imaginative order : The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground, 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 clond o'ercasts the... | |
 | William T. Dobson - Epic poetry - 1879 - 458 pages
...foes stealing away to the ships. The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...the rising morn. As when in stillness of the silent night, As when the moon in all her lustre bright, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her silver" light ; pure spread's sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stoo<J, And o'er... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...feel, The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel ? FROM THE ILIAD. BOOK vin. The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumin'd all the...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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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... 
