 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...— Let there be a cataract, and it was so. 7 A paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away; The last still loveliest, till —'tis gone—and all is grey. 8 1 Charles Dickens (Notes on America). 2 Southey (Madoc). 3 Milton.... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 pages
...celebrated in the poet's lay as an emblem of the glory which shines most conspicuously in the hour of death. -parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour, as it gaiipa away : The last still loveliest, till, — 'lis gone — und all ls gray !" BYRON. In fearful... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 't is gone — and all is gray. BYRON. THE PROPHECY OF CAPYS. Now slain is King Amulius, Of... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...magical variety diffuse : And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone, and all is gray. ROME. OH Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the... | |
 | Alfred Hawkins - 1844 - 234 pages
...outline of the mountains with a gorgeous splendour which sets the pencil of the artist at defiance. " parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone— and all is gray." But even the beautiful description of the poet fails to convoy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in Autumn till— 'tis gone — and all is gray. [Midnight Scene in Rome — the Colixum.] [From 'Manfred.1]... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...magical variety diffuse : And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, Yet, while all admit how much nature has done for the Mediterranean, none will deny that, until very... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...magical variety diffuse : And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone, and all is gray. ROME. OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 pages
...in the poet's lay as an emblem of the glory which shines most conspicuously in the hour of death. " parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...imbues With a new colour, as it gasps away : The last stil! loveliest, till,— 'tis gone— and all is gray !" BYRON. In fearful pre-eminence amongst those... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...— Dattaway's Travels. And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains : parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The kst still loveliest, till — tis gone — and all is gray. BYI?OX. BEING BACK THE CHAIN. IT was an... | |
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Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day... 
