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... The Retrospective Review - Page 1841821Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 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 dark... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...ground ; As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of niglit ! O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her snored light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cluud o'creasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...pri'.st, but rich without a fault. CONCtUIIOS OF BOOK Till. VER. 637. As wh»n the Moon, refulgeiit lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When nut a breath disturbs the deep serene. And not a c'oud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...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 sillier lijjht ; pure spreads sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stood, And o'er... | |
| George Dyer - English poetry - 1812 - 240 pages
...the moon, according to those inimitable lines of Homer, so finely paraphrased by Pope : — Aswhen the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her silver light, When uot a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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 sleds her silver light ; pure " spreads sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stood, And o'er... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 352 pages
...her guilty race. The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumin'd all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's...trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from... | |
| James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1813 - 404 pages
...ni'ns Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sots off the face of things MILT-OS. t As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnuaiber'd gild the glowing pole : 6'er the dark trees a yellow verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| Greek literature - 1813 - 350 pages
...her guilty race. The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumin'd all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars uunumber'd gild tin: glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...pause is independent on those points or stops which the rules of punctuation require. On the fourth : When not a breath— disturbs the deep serene ; And not a cloud — o'ercasts the solemn scene. Iliad. On the fifth: Where awful arches— make a noon-day night, And the dim windows — shed religious... | |
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