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
| 1844 - 834 pages
...afterwards poured the light of his genius over those lands of the sun where his descending orb set — ' Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, • But one unclouded blaze of living light." Scotland, my lord, may well be proud of such men, but she can no longer call these exclusively her... | |
| G. A. Perdicaris - 1845 - 336 pages
...described by Byron : " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills, the setting son ; Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one...the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old jEgina's rock, and Idra's isle, The god of gladness sheds his parting smile ; O'er his own regions... | |
| John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 pages
...11 О О 11 2O О О " 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 throw«, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old jEgina's... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 pages
...Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one undauded blaze of livmg light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On oU ^£giit's rock and Idra's isle The god of gladness sheds his parting smile ; O'er his own regions... | |
| 1845 - 656 pages
...the reproach of foreigners ; but deeply, beautifully blue, with a tropical sun, as Byron says — " Not, as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light" — entirely superseding stoves and hot-beds, and all our expensive apparatus for the production of... | |
| William Dansey - 1845 - 178 pages
...in putting into his prose the second line of Byron's splendid description of a sunset at Athens, " Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light," you will have the leaves for nothing." Indeed the whole work bears evident marks of a diligent perusal... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1845 - 438 pages
...afterwards poured the light of his genius over those lands of the sun, where his descending orb sets — " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." Scotland, my lord, may well be proud of having given birth to, or awakened the genius of such men ;... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - 1845 - 408 pages
...clime obscurely bright, But one unciouded blaze of living'light ; O'er the hushed deep the yellow beams he throws, Gilds the green wave that trembles as it glows ; On old tEgina's rock and Idra's isie, The God of Gladness sheds his parting smile ; O'er his own regions lingering... | |
| Andrew Alexander Bonar, Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1845 - 596 pages
...There was no peculiar beauty in the sunset — only the sunliimself appeared remarkably brilliant, " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of 11 ring light." The swallows kept flying about the vessel till darkness came on ; and then the stars... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...ahbandona. DANTE. 1. SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along M ore a1 s hills, the setting ramins, hushM deep the yellow beam he throw*, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old .'K^in;i's... | |
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