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
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1795 - 468 pages
...her throws " A death-like filence, and a dread repofe: " Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, " Shades every flower, and darkens every green, " Deepens...floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the woods." POPE, Elitija to Aldard, ver. 165. WHILE the foul expands, and the mind becomes ferene and free, you... | |
| Ann Radcliffe - Europe - 1795 - 522 pages
...round her throws A deathlike filence, and a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens...th'e falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods." The The river, expanding into a vaft. bay, feems nearly furrounded by mountains, that... | |
| Books and bookselling - 1795 - 488 pages
...round her throws A death-like filence, and a dread repofe. Her gloomy prefcnce faddens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; •...the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods. РОГЕ. Half way between Boppart and Coblentz is the town of Rnens^ remarkable for... | |
| 1795 - 614 pages
...without an air of breath Dwells here, and a dumb quiet next to Jeati.' REV. Avc. 1795. G g Deepeiu Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods*.' Thofe of our readers who are fond of the delicacies of poetical expreifion, and who love to trace them... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...here, and a dumb quiet next to death* But fafe repofe without an air of breath Deepens the murmi!i - of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods*.' Thofe of our readers who are fond of the delicacies of poetical exprrfiio", and who love to trace them... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long sounding aisles, aud intermingled, graves, Black Black melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like...every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.'' Eloisa. We might here... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...a dread repofe i 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. 1 70 Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 428 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. 170 Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
| Christopher Lake Moody - France - 1798 - 540 pages
...8< Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, . ** Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green ; k' Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the woods.1* Several of thefe hofpitable monks, we told, have retired into the mountains of Freybourg,... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1800 - 410 pages
...prefence faddens all the fcene, " Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; '* Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the woods." POPE — Eloifa to Ahelartl. I 3 BUT BUT how the foul expands, and every thought becomes ferene and... | |
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