But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens... An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 315by Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...and a dread repofe; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...repofe : " Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, *^ Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry # " green, " Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the " woods." \ It is candidly and juftly obferved by the effayift fo often mentioned, that the figurative expreifions,... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...caves, Long-sounding isles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws i65 A death-like silence, and a dread repose; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flon-'r, and darkens ev'ry green,. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1778 - 508 pages
...her throws ' A death-like filence, and a dread repofe : Her gloomy prefence faddens all the ¡cene ¡ Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens...murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horrour on the woods.' EloiTa to Abclard, v. 154. < The aflive imagination of the fufceptible reader,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...throws 165 A death-like filence, and a dread repofe; Her gloomy prefence lad•Jens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods, 170 Yet here for ever, ever muft I flay; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. . Yet Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Literature - 1791 - 514 pages
...prefence faddehs all the icene, • r " Shades every, flow'r, and datkenrev'ry. green, Deepens the mjirmur of the falling 'floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever muft I flay, . ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey! Death, only death, can... | |
| James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...a dread repofe : Her gloomy prefence iaddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a "browner horror on the woods. Yet here forever, ever mufl I flay ; Sad proof how -well a lover can obey ! Death, only death; can... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1794 - 446 pages
...throws " A death-like filence, and a dread repofe : " Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, " Shades every flower, and darkens every green, " Deepens...falling floods, " And breathes a browner horror on tbe woods." POPE, Eloifa to Abelard, ver. 165. WHILE the foul expands, and the mind becomes ferene... | |
| Helen Maria Williams - France - 1794 - 250 pages
...dread repofe ; " Her gloomy prefence faddcns all the fcene, i " Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, " Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the woods." If it were not very difficult to be angry with fuch a poet as Pope, particularly after having juft... | |
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