 | Lindley Murray - Readers and speakers - 1828 - 256 pages
...nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'riiig with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Nor grateful ey'ning mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glitt'ring star-light — without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these 1 for whom... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 344 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn...of each particular image, with a little varying of the expression, makes one of the finest turns of words that I have ever seen ; which I rather mention,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glisf ring with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn...moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet. DCCCLXm. Milton. The Atheistical fellows who appeared in the last age did not serve the devil for naught,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or gUttering starlight without thee is sweet. Milton. Dcccixm. The Atheistical fellows who appeared in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...nor herb, fruit, ttow'r, ; Giist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs; Nor grateful ev'ninn- mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walK by moon, Or glitt'ring star-light, — without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ning with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moou, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. Thus, at their shady lodge arriv'd, both stood,... | |
 | 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
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 984 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn...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... | |
 | 1831 - 704 pages
...star-light, without tbee is sweet»' .* Paradise Lost, book iv. vcr. 630. The variety of images in Ibis passage is infinitely pleasing, and the recapitulation...of each particular image, with a little varying of the ex pression, makes one of the finest turns of words that I have ever seen ; which I rather mention,... | |
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... With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heaven her starry train : 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... 
