 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 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 ii gray. ROME. OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 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. -" XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 352 pages
...cannot resist quoting it. It shows how minutely the sailor poet must have observed. Byron tells us how " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — tis gone, and all is gray." Falconer, in... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 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 color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all La gray. LESSON LXXXIV.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1852 - 394 pages
...cannot resist quoting it. It shows how minutely the sailor poet must have observed. Byron tells us how " 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." Falconer, in anticipating, reversed the simile. The huge animal.... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 328 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."* The comparison here is quite equal in point of ingenuity... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 458 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... | |
 | Neave (Sir Digby i.e. Richard Digby), sir Richard Digby Neave (3rd bart.) - 1852 - 320 pages
...magical variety diffuse ; ' And now they change, a paler shadow strews A mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies, like the dolphin, whom each pang...With a new colour, as it gasps away, The last still lovelier, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." CHAPTER III. MAUM TURC. — A OAIRN. — BED Of... | |
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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... 
