 AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, "Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5641839Full view - About this book
 | Friendship - 1841 - 358 pages
...sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tints appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 1 — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...as distant as the stars, would seem As marvelous as they ;" and Campbell's often-quoted couplet, " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue !" Or who that reads the lines, " There is in nature nothing mean or base, But only as our... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...Hill. • Lord Byron asks, (vol. vl. p. 366.) " la not tbi> the original of Mr. Campbell's far-famed, by terrors unsubdued, They with redoubling force their task pursued. And n azure bus" ? We answer for Mr. Campbell, decidedly not !] ALLAN RAMSAY. (Born, 1«B8. Dltd, 17970 THE... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 332 pages
...Why do those cliffs of shadowy lint appear More aweet than all the landscape smiling near?— "Tie distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure line. Thus, with delight we linger tn survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...Why do those cliffs of shadowy teint appear' More sweet than all the landscape smiling near* 1 — "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view', And robes the mountain in its azure hue*. Thus', with delight', we linger to survey' The promised joys of life's unmeasured way*... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...lo redress the miseries of their race, and to take vengeam'e on the violators of justice and mercy. Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near £-- T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its ezure hue. Thus, with... | |
 | 1844 - 616 pages
...with bright arch the glittering hills below. Why to yon mountain turas the musing eye, Whoso sunbrighl summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs...enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; 290... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1844 - 790 pages
...hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sk j 1 Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet...enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight we linger to surrey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
...With the bee of nature, the real visitor of the flowers, this Is Impossible. If it be true that: 'Tin distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain In its azure hue, it would also appear that it is remoteness from actual fact which has enabled the theorists... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape...lends enchantment to the view, And robes the 'mountain with its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured... | |
| |
