| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 332 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn...of each particular image, with a little varying of the expression, makes one of the finest turns of words that 1 have ever seen: whi ch I rather mention,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn...variety of images in this passage is infinitely pleasing ; ana the recapitulation of each particular image, with a little varying of the expression, makes one... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Gliet'ning with dew ; nor fragrance after showers •, Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her. solemn...moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. Thue, at their shady lodge arriv'd, both stood, Both turn'd ; and under open sky ador'd The God that... | |
| English essays - 1823 - 442 pages
...glittering star-light, without thee is sweet." The variety of images in this passage is infinitelypleasing ; and the recapitulation of each particular image, with a little varying of the expression, makes one of the finest turns of words that I have ever seen : which I rather mention,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful precious / But wherefore all night long shine these f For whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, 655 Or glittering star-light without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these ? for... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...land ; nor herb, fruit, floiv'r, |, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Ndr grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glitt'ring star light,—without thee is sweet Hut wherefore all nightlong shine these ? for whom This... | |
| 1825 - 270 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by noon, Or glitt'ring star-light, without Thee is sweet." Nay more, nature may fail, her beauties be... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...dew ; nor fragranee after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her soleum her generous power ? Would sordid polieies, the barbarous growth Of igno But wherefore all night long shine these ? For whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn...of each particular image, with a little varying of the expression, makes one of the finest turns of words that I have ever seen ; which I rather mention,... | |
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