 | 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,...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 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,...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... | |
 | Roger Sprague - 1917 - 392 pàgines
...came the voluptuous lines of Byron : "Where 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 are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine." VII... | |
 | Roger Sprague - 1917 - 398 pàgines
...clothed with the many tints of the tropical forest, and to his mind came the voluptuous lines of Byron : "Where 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... | |
 | Mary Belle Hooton - 1918 - 182 pàgines
...the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And...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... | |
 | Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1924 - 494 pàgines
...the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And...may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye." Properly speaking, this is not description, in the modern sense, at all. Indeed Byron's sense of colour,... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1919 - 632 pàgines
...Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the garden of Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit And...the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In color though varied in beauty may vie?" Aye, Childe Harold, we know it well. For, often, in heavy seas,... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 874 pàgines
...the light wings of zephyr, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And...voice of the nightingale never is mute; Where the times of the earth and the lines of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie?" As to the... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 876 pàgines
...light wings of zephyr, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom; Wrhere the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute; Where the times of the earth and the lines of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie?" As to the... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 560 pàgines
...the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And...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? "Tis... | |
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Gul in her 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 sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie... 
