 | George Barrell Cheever - Temperance - 1853 - 406 pages
...change ; a paler shadow strews Its 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 't is gone — and all is gray. Combined with the beauty of this scene, you have, in returning from... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - English poetry - 1853 - 334 pages
...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 speak... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away,...last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all if gray. 50 51 XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua, — rear'd in air, PiBar'd in their sarcophagus, repose... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - Bible as literature - 1854 - 316 pages
...they? "A paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like a dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 't is gone — and all is grey." BYRON. There is in this passage a comparison ; and two verbs,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the Dolphin, whom each pang imhues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest till— 'tis gone— and all is gray. FLORIZEL'S PRAISE OF PERDITA, BY SHAKESPEAR. WHAT you do ,._ ' Still betters what is done. When you... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...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. THEKE... | |
 | John William Clayton - Egypt - 1854 - 134 pages
...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.... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1855 - 598 pages
...redeem the errors of his life, by an act of noble generosity. Thus dying, " like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away,...last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone— and all is grey." The jury found a verdict against the heirs, and, of course, in favor of the legatee, who lives... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - English language - 1855 - 324 pages
...they ? "A paler shadow strews Ita mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like a dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — "t is gone — and all is grey." BYBON. There is in this passage a comparison ; and two verbs,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 456 pages
...sweat that plashed doun on Parting day Dies like a 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, canto iv., st. 39. s " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out... | |
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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... 
