 | Henry Moses - India - 1750 - 314 pages
...open to rational views on the subject of religion." CHAPTER VIII. " The moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,...the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head." Departure of day. Rapid advance of night. Indian nights peculiar. Deserted... | |
 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...grow instead of wheat, and cockles instead of barley. When the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, o'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; when not a breath disturbs the deep soreue, and not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scone; around her throne the vivid planets roll, and stars... | |
 | Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1834 - 598 pages
...order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,...Around her throne the vivid planets roll And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene j Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumher'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, • And tipt with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood... | |
 | British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...translated, or rather paraphrased in the following lines: As when the moon, reful gent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light...Around her. throne the vivid planets roll, And stars nnnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip wiih silver... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...but rich without a fault. Coniluiion of Book VIII. -&. 687As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Richard Warner - Wales - 1800 - 396 pages
...instance has excelled his original: < r As when the moon, resplendent lamp of night, «' Q.er heaven.s clear azure spreads her sacred light, " When not a...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, " And stars unnumber.d gild the glowing pole 5 " O.er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, " And tip with silver... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the 5 lemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head : Then shine the vales — the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory... | |
 | Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...From gilded roofs an artificial day. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's pure azure spreads her sacred light .; When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...Jmontege with his harmless marmot. . MOONLIGHT. WHEN the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
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O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies: The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and... 
