 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 208 pages
...Homer. The last may as well be quoted :— As when the moon— refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heav'n's clear azure — spreads her sacred light, When not...disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud— o'ercasts tin; solemn scene; Around her throne — the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd — gild the... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...milliner's door. BATH GUIDE. A COMPARISON. AS when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er Heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...gild the glowing pole. O'er the dark trees a yellower yerdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 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 O'er the dark trees... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...Ami beaming fires illumin'd all the ground, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbcr'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...where that of Homer begins : As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night O'er heav'n's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...just and happy image of a moonlight sky : while it is difficult to determine whether iu the lines, "Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole," the sense, or the diction be the more absurd. My answer was ; that tho' I had derived peculiar advantages... | |
 | England - 1828 - 964 pages
...Ambrosiame returns, and she is made again to feel the exquisite beauty of those lines of Homer and Pope— " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night* O'er Heaven's clear azure tneds her sacred light 1* We must not, however, be too severe on the world, whose chief fault, after... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...first the combat sought, A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. Conclusion of Book VIII. v. 687. 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 rooks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...fault. Conclusion of Book VIII. v. 687. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's cleat azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath...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... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...his harmless marmot. ORIGINAL, MOONLIGHT WHEN the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a...scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And Btars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with... | |
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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... 
