| William Edward Simonds - 1902 - 510 σελίδες
...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...shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head." In this description Pope rises to his highest reach of power ; but, truly, his verses are not Homer.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 636 σελίδες
...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...trees a yellower verdure shed And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 σελίδες
...cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; 690 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 ev'ry mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 502 σελίδες
...a cloud o'ercasts the solemn 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, have fallen into ; — these be they : — He says of Greece in the body of his book l— that it is... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 σελίδες
...azure sheds 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 the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| Great Britain. Scottish Education Department - 1908 - 1232 σελίδες
...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 the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| Martha Hale Shackford - 1908 - 496 σελίδες
...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 the glowing pole, 17 O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| 1908 - 1176 σελίδες
...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 the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1909 - 632 σελίδες
...cloud- o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower...the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts farm all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the... | |
| William Joseph Long - 1909 - 638 σελίδες
...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...verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. The " Essay " is the best known and the most quoted of all Pope's works. Except in form it is not poetry,... | |
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