 | Charles Sealsfield - New York (N.Y.) - 1844 - 298 pages
...on deck, inspires you with a sad melancholy. Beautifully the poet describes their dissolution." whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away ; The last still loveliest — 'tis gone — and all is gray." Yes, but what shall be done from now to dinner time? Everything... | |
 | Alfred Hawkins - Quebec (City) - 1844 - 234 pages
...the artist at defiance. " 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." But even the beautiful description of the poet fails to convoy an adequate idea of the brilliant... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 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 gray. ROME. OH Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Loqe... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour shines in Autumn gray. [Midnight Scene in Rome — the Colixum.] [From 'Manfred.1] The stars are forth, the moon above... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 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 - Science - 1846 - 682 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." Our worthy Master came up, and for once (I had never before seen him sentimental, only when... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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. BYBON. Brilliant as. these stanzas are, the older poets have a more natural charm — to our... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Amusements - 1847 - 184 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 SEA. Oh ! how refreshing and delightful it is 8AILIHO OST THE SEA, at this season of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 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. XXX. There is a tomb In Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd in their sarcophagus, repose The... | |
 | Sir Edward Belcher - English language - 1848 - 600 pages
...grey. One poet has said, " 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." There are many other fish that change colour several times before they die ; I have seen species... | |
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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... 
