 | Fitch Waterman Taylor - 1840 - 396 pages
...Aad now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o 'er the mountains; parting day Dies like a dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour,...still loveliest, till—'tis gone—and all is gray." Our worthy Master came up, and for once (I had never before seen him sentimental, only when singing... | |
 | 1840 - 378 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, [gray. The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is Egeria ! sweet creation of some... | |
 | James Wilson - 1840 - 510 pages
...of colour are easily perceived by an attentive eye : — it dies like parting day, each pang imbued With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone, and all is grey. The gill-covers are marked with large dark spots ; and the whole... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...magical variety diffuse: And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; — not his lemans dear — But pomp and power alone...care. And where these are light Eros finds a feere; Ma till — 'tis gone — and all isgrpv. XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1842 - 464 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 grey." Childe Harold. THE charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been... | |
 | Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...described them as occurring in Italy, with the feelings and language of a true poet. In conclusion, he says 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. Childe Harold, cant. iv. Again, a fine tropical niy;ht is a... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1842 - 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 grey. Childe Harold. THE charms of the Tyrrhenian sea have been sung... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 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/ TbelntBtffl loveliest, Ш1— 'tis gone— and all is gray. XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1842 - 358 pages
...poet must hare observed. Byron tells us how " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang embnes With a new colour, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone, and all is gray." Falconer, in anticipating, reversed the simile. The huge ani>ia... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 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... | |
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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... 
