 | 1818 - 638 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone— and all is gray. p. 16, 17. Passing through Arqua, the mountain-village where PCtr.irch ' went clown the vale of year?,... | |
 | 1818 - 762 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the Dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. We must not venture upon Ferrara. The strain of sentiment is in general quite the same with that of... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains , parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." We quote the four following stanzas, principally for the sake of the last. " What from this barren... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the Dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. We must not venture upon Ferrara. The strain of sentiment is in general quite the same with that of... | |
 | 1818 - 638 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies h'ke the dolphin, whom each ptng imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." The following lines, intended to communicate the poet's admiration of the author of the " Jerusalem,"... | |
 | 1818 - 724 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day [imbues Dies like the Dolphin, whom each pang With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, 'till— 'tis gone—- and all is grey." The dolphin was consecrated by the ancients to the gods, and called the sacred fish. 'The story... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 pàgines
...mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom eacli pang imbues \\ith a new colour as it gaeps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.' pp. 1 6,1 "7. But by far the finest passage in the poem, to our taste, is the noble apostrophe to the... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest,— till — 'tis gone, — and all is gray." Immediately upon oar arrival, we repaired to the tavern, whither Captain Brampton had been conveyed,... | |
 | 1819 - 504 pàgines
...mantle o*er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the Dilfhin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — tis gone— and all is frey. The dolphin was consecrated by the ancients to the gods, and called the sacred fish. The story... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the Dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away , The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is grey. XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd in their sarcophagus, repose The bones... | |
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... face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like... 
