| Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pages
...this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1817 - 416 pages
...sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses 3 Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...vale of flowers, . , Is sleeping rosy at his feet. • . I y • » To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 pages
...Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses* Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flower* Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions... | |
| 1818 - 798 pages
...this sigh the boon must be "That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...in a vale of flowers. Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous mustjhave been... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pages
...this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 pages
...the world. One lordly mountain indeed remains immutably the same, Whose head in wintry grandeur towen And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Lies sleeping rosy at his feet. And well may it be called the " Sovereign Blanc/' It is a singular... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heaven for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBArvoi*, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a... | |
| Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...this sigh the boon must be " That opes the gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory,...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
| 1872 - 348 pages
...in magnificent repose ; and of it one of our poets says : " Like a glory, the broad sun Hangs o'er sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." The Lebanon range is properly an immense tract of mountainous country, about 100 miles in length. Its... | |
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