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" As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild... "
A scriptural and allegorical glossary to Milton's Paradise lost - Page 51
by Christian Cann - 1828 - 290 pages
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His Son

George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...transposed more of the beautiful than is in the original.... • " As when the moon, refulgent lauip of night, " O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, " And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; " O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, " And tip with silver...
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Meditations and Contemplations

James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1809 - 384 pages
...sets off the face of things — — M LT t As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'u's clear azure spreads her sacred light : When not a...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unumbcr'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellow verdure shed. And tip with silver ev'ry...
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A treatise on the conduct of God to the human species, and on the divine ...

James Hare - God - 1809 - 412 pages
...transcendent display of celestial beauty, which the stars exhibit in the blue hemisphere on some fine night, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene. He allowed, and still allows, man to come into his presence at all times, and to praise and adore him,...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine: I. Ancient ...

Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...disturbs the deep serene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd deck the shadowy 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 lurstsfrmn...
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Emily, a moral tale, including letters from a father to his daughter, Volume 2

Henry Kett - 1809 - 342 pages
...eighth Book of the Iliad ; — ;I allude to the following moft exquifite landfcape of a moonlight night. As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of- night, O'er Heaven's clear azure fprcads her facred light, When not a breath difturhs the deep ferene, ": And not a cloud o'ercafts...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...combat soiisht, A wealthy priest, but rich without a- fault. i CONCLUSION 0» IOOK VIII. VEX. 68T. As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's...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...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...swell the dreadful tide. POPE'S HOMER. Wight, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heavVs clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumberM gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...troops exulting sat in order round, And beffm'injr fires illumin'd all the ground ; As when til«; Moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er Heaven's clear...a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud overcasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne Hie -úvid planets roll, And stars unnumhcr'd pild the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...round, And beaming tires illumin'd all the ground : As when the Moon, r 'fulgent lamp of night ! <~>'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep «-rene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...scene ; not a Around her silver throne the planets glow, And stars unnumber'd trembling beams bestow : Around her throne the vivid planets roll And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole; Clear gleams of light o'er the dark trees are seen, o'er the dark trees a yellow sheds, O'er the dark...
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