SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles... The Corsair - Page 37by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 55 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edwin Lee - 1841 - 242 pages
...this hill Claude Lorraine was in the habit of watching the sinking sun making his " golden set," " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light," and the varied tints produced in " the bright tract of his fiery car," which few besides himself have... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...— DANTE. I. SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, ' Along Могеа'з hills the setting * ; it la in mini, and connected hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old JEgina's... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1842 - 490 pages
...his undying poetry. " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright,...But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old ^Egina's... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1842 - 468 pages
...as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old ^Egina's rock and Idra's isle The god of gladness sheds his parting smile ; O'er his own regions lingering,... | |
| Edward Hungerford D. Elers Napier - 1842 - 770 pages
...Dorvish — News. " Slow sinks, more radiant, ere his race be run, Behind Morea's hills, the setting sun ; Not as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." BYRON. SUCH was the splendid sight presented to us, when, after a delightful run of a couple of days... | |
| 1842 - 416 pages
...countenance of the Greek is wholly lost, and it is the soul of the picture ; — the light, as Byron says, Not as in northern climes obscurely bright But one unclouded blaze of living light — throws strongly forward his manly figure ; and the landscape and accessaries are all calculated... | |
| John Galt - 1842 - 350 pages
...these delicious lines : Slow sinks more lovely e'er his race be run, Along Morea's hills, the setting sun ; Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living Jight. O|er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave that trembles as it flows... | |
| Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1842 - 376 pages
...There was no peculiar beauty in the sunset — only»the «un himself appeared remarkably brilliant, " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." i Prom. Vinct. 89. E 50 VOYAGE TO ALEXANDRIA — COAST OF GREECE. The swallows kept flying about the... | |
| 1860 - 620 pages
...his progress in the cloudy atmosphere of Europe, and the whole horizon glows with ruddy lustre ; " Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." At DO other moment does the verdure of th« mountain woods appear so vivid ; each spray dripping with... | |
| John Wilson - 1844 - 656 pages
...they rivalled, I may say far surpassed, Byron's description of the sun setting along Morea's height: ' Not as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light,' • The rarefaction of the atmosphere, which gave rise to a new and most beautiful aspect of the heavens;... | |
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