 | Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 280 pages
...words ; yet here as there, " 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 !" I cannot tell of the beauties of climes I have never seen ; but I have gazed upon all the varied... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...mantle o'er the mountains ; purting 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. BYRON. A CASTLE IN THE AIR. I'LL tell you, friend, what sort of wife, Whene'er I scan this scene... | |
 | James Wilson - Fishes - 1840 - 500 pages
...easily perceived by an attentive eye : — 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 grey. The gill-covers are marked with large dark spots ; and the whole body is covered with markings... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day , Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour here these are light Eros finds a feere; Maidens, like moths, are ever cau isgrpv. XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd in their sarcophagus, repose The... | |
 | Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...poet. In conclusion, he says 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 Harold, cant. iv. Again, a fine tropical niy;ht is a glorious thing at all times, but... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1842 - 358 pages
...observed. Byron tells us how " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang embnes With a new colour, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone, and all is gray." Falconer, in anticipating, reversed the simile. The huge ani>ia vast deal of fighting sheerly... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 456 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... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1842 - 318 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 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. ROME. OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone... | |
 | Fitch Waterman Taylor - Voyages around the world - 1843 - 676 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, The last etill loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." Our worthy Master came up, and for once (I... | |
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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... 
