 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1857 - 452 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." Childe Harold THE charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been sung since the days of Homer. That... | |
 | Charles Manby Smith - London - 1857 - 452 pages
..." Parting day." says a noble poet, "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." To the mind of the artist, "in populous city pent," this description is not a whit less applicable... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1858 - 500 pages
...of the soils, as Byron said of the skies of Italy : — 1 'Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away,...loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." The value of land is a consequence of the improvement which labor has effected upon it, and it constitutes... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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. MIDNIGHT SCENE IN ROME — THE COLISEUM. [From Manfred.'] The stars are forth, the moon above the tops... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1858 - 512 pages
...say of the soils, as Byron said of the skies of Italy : — " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The latt ttill loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." The value of land is a consequence of... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 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...loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. Italia ! O Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower, of present... | |
 | William E. Kendall - Africa - 1860 - 148 pages
...change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantal o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the Dolphin, when each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away...still loveliest, till 'tis gone — and all is gray." The Pyramids next claimed our attention. Leaving our hotel very early in the morning, on our before... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1860 - 452 pages
...change, 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,...still loveliest, till 'tis gone and all is gray." TRIPERSONALITY. THERE could not be a greater mistake, than that of those who assume that the popular... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 506 pages
...shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang fmbnes With a new color as It gasps away, The last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone— and all Is grey." GUILDS HAROLD. THE charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been sung since the days of Homer. That... | |
 | Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - 1860 - 470 pages
...capillaries then plays a part, when - " It dies like parting day, - each pang imbued With a new colour, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone, and all is gray." It was this modification which in ancient times an greatly excited admiration at the beauteous versatile... | |
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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... 
