 | English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...flower, Crlblcring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening inild ; nor Bilcnt night. With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering ttar-light, without thee is sweet.' The variety of images in this passage U infinitely pleasing, and... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this...Or glittering star-light, without thee, is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...And these the gems of Heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of Morn, when she ascends 650 • With charm of earliest birds : nor rising sun '. ,...Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, 655 •4. Or glittering starlight, withouyiaflwii. sweet. To whom our general ancestor replied : •***... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 984 pages
...charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful...moon Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet. Par. Lost, b. iv. 1. 642. Th« two poets do not at all resemble each other in their manner of treating... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...charm of earliest bird, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ning with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful...night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon Or glitt'ring starlight, without thee is sweet. PARADISE LOST — BOOK IV. 1. 634. The repetitions in... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...Glittering with dew ; nor fragrance after showen ; Nor grateful Evening mild ; nor silent -Yig./i/, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without THEE, is sweet ! THOMSON, also, whose soul was attuned to tenderness, exclaims : But happy THET, the happiest of their... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair...nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without these is sweet. Voir Dieu dans mon époux est ma suprême loi : Une femme doit-elle en savoir davantage... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1832 - 260 pages
...; nor herb, fruit, flow'r, GUst'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Nor grateful ev'ning mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird...Or glittering star-light — without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers,...this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon Or glittering star light, without thee is sweet. Paradise Lest, B. IV. I. 63*. What mean ye, that ye use this proverb,... | |
 | J. Cherpilloud - French language - 1833 - 272 pages
...sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew; nor fragrance after shower Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this...moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet. SPEKCH OF SLOTH. MttiM And leaning on one arm his lumpy head, While from his languid eyes a deluge... | |
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But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn... 
