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| World history - 1851 - 614 pages
...; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the...may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ?... | |
| William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...4 Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky,...may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ?... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the...beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in die ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine... | |
| Henry Christmas - Mediterranean Sea - 1851 - 346 pages
...as no other country can show — " Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye I " who feels the soft breezes of the fragrant ^Egean, must surely expect to land in a sort of terrestrial... | |
| F M. Fitzmaurice - 1851 - 236 pages
...picturesque-looking figures in this motley place. " Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ;" — and I have often thought that instead of the constitutional melancholy the Englishman is accused... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - Gold mines and mining - 1852 - 702 pages
...of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ? " BYRON. THE Hastings, Macleay, and Bellengen Rivers, of which I have given a brief notice above,... | |
| Charles Astor Bristed - 1852 - 466 pages
...lines from Byron — " Where the hues of the earth and the hues of the sky, Though different in color, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye," by this couplet, " Qua i win et terra variua color, una venuatas Et latices nigris subrubuere vadig."... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the...beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in die ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine... | |
| Pierre de Tchihatcheff - Geology - 1853 - 690 pages
...voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky In colour though varied, in beauty may vie. And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgin are soft as the roses they twine , And all, save the spirit of men , is divine, «... | |
| Petr Aleksandrovich Chikhachev - 1853 - 864 pages
...voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgin are soft as the roses they twine , And all , save the spirit of men , is divine ,... | |
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