| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Giil in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...beauty 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... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in their bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...beauty 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... | |
| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins... | |
| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins... | |
| Henry Christmas - 1851 - 346 pàgines
...that the spectator who sees all this picture set in such a frame as no other country can show — " Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky,...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... | |
| F M. Fitzmaurice - 1851 - 236 pàgines
...flowing robes walking about the town, one of the many picturesque-looking figures in this motley place. " Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky,...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in die ; Where the virgins... | |
| 1851 - 614 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Giil in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in their bloom ; 4 Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins... | |
| John Fitzgerald Leslie Foster - 1851 - 102 pàgines
...thunder and vivid lightning, the brilliant calmy moonlight, the gorgeous sunset,— " Where the fruits of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie." True indeed it is that such is not always the case; that in the heat of summer sometimes a " hot wind,"... | |
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