 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...evening colour 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 grey." § 12. Let not, however, the reader confuse the use of brown, as an expression of a natural... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...evening colour 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 grey." § 12. Let not, however, the reader confuse the use of brown, as an expression of a natural... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1856 - 312 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 it gray. ROME. OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,... | |
 | John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1866 - 508 pages
...parrot. The cen* " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color ;'.» it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is grey." — M. t The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And like a lobster... | |
 | Octavia Walton Le Vert - Europe - 1857 - 360 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 'tis gone, and all is gray." I lingered long at my window, till the stars came to keep me company. From a grove of trees... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 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. BYRON. THE PROPHECY OF CAPYS. Now slain is King Amulius, Of the great Sylvian line, Who reigned... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 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. BYBON. A CHILD'S THOUGHT. 1 remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think... | |
 | 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,...still 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... | |
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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... 
