 Fill'd with the 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...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Pàgina 3001818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all La gray. LESSON LXXXIV. Approach of Age. CBABBE. Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pàgines
...shadow strews Its 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 — 't is gone — and all is gray. -" XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1852 - 394 pàgines
...poet must have observed. Byron tells us how " 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." Falconer, in anticipating, reversed the simile. The huge animal. stickleback of our ponds and ditches... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 458 pàgines
...shadow strews Its 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." Childe Harold. THE charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been sung since the days of Homer. That the Mediterranean,... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 298 pàgines
...shadow strews Its 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"* The comparison here is quite equal in point of ingenuity to that in Hudibras, but it strikes... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 314 pàgines
...shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, lahom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, 'till—'tis gone—and all is gray,"* The comparison here is quite equal in point of ingenuity to... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 334 pàgines
...shadow shows Its 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. FLORIZEL'S PRAISE OF PERDITA. J!Y SHAKESl'EAH. WHAT you do Still betters what is done. When you... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 490 pàgines
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone— and all is grey." CHILDK HAROLD. THE charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been sung since the days of Homer. That the Mediterranean... | |
 | John William Clayton - 1854 - 134 pàgines
...shadow strews Its 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. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burned on the waters ; the poop was beaten gold. ALEXANDRIA,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pàgines
...shadow strews Its 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. CHILDE HAROLC. — Can/9 IV. THE FIELD OF THRASIMENE. 33 THE FIELD OF THRASIMENB.-THE CLITUMNUS.... | |
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