 | James Fenimore Cooper - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1860 - 510 pages
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang Imbues With a new color us It gasps away, The last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone— and all Is grey." CHILDI HAROLD. THE charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been sung since the days of Homer. That... | |
 | William Maccrillis Griswold - 1890 - 910 pages
...— " 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,...still loveliest, till — 'tis gone, and all is gray." WHB 'From the St. James Magazine (abridged), September, 1865. THE ENGLISH LAKES,1 1. We have all heard... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 pages
...shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting t!.-.y Dies like the dolphin, whom each par.y imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last...still loveliest, till 'tis gone — and all is gray. Sunset. IF solitude hath ever led thy steps To the wild ocean's echoing shore, And thou hast lingered... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 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,...still loveliest, till 'tis gone — and all is gray. 270 271 Sunset. IF solitude hath ever led thy steps To the wild ocean's echoing shore, And thou hast... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 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. GOING HOME. JOHN CRAWFORD WILSON. " I must go Home to-day ! " A golden beam Of dazzling sunlight streamed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour e *0 *0 4*0 grey. XXX. ^i 1 There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, "V -). iPillar'd in their sarcophagus,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 488 pages
...evening color farther certifies the hues of Dante's twilight, — it " Dies like the dolphin, when it gasps away — The last still loveliest ; till 'tis gone, and all is gray." § 12. Let not, however, the reader confuse the use of brown, as an expression of a natural tint, with... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...mantle o'er the mountains; 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. Byron. Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues That live among the clouds, and flush the... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 982 pages
...change : a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains i parting dny Dies 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." CIIILDX HAROLD. THE charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been sunn; since tha days of Homer. That... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 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. THE AVE MARIA. (DON JUAN, Canto iii. Stanzas 102-109.) AVE Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time,... | |
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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... 
