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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... "
The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India - Page 214
by Bholanauth Chunder - 1869
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The English Parnassus: An Anthology, Chiefly of Longer Poems

William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 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, 260 The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. XXX There is a tomb in Arqua...
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Selections from Byron: Childe Harold, Canto IV, The Prisoner of Chillon ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1911 - 252 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 — 't is gone — and all is gray. There...
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Byron's Childe Harold (canto IV): Prisoner of Chillon and Other Selections

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1911 - 184 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, 260 The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. XXX....
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Poems, Narrative and Lyrical: Required for College Entrance

Robert Porter St. John - 1911 - 268 pages
...change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin,0 whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, 260 The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. XXX There is a tomb in Arqua...
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A Dictionary of Similes

Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 540 pages
...ANON. The fresh roses on your cheeks shall die, Like flowers that wither in the shade. — APHRA BEHN. 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. — BYRON. Dies like cookery with the day that brought it forth....
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English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement

George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...magical variety diffuse : And now they change; a paler shadow ' strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; arn, by n mortal yearning, to ascend— Seeking a higher object. Lo color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest,— till— 'tis gone— and all is gray. 95 78 Oh...
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Der Spenserstanze im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, Parts 54-56

Hedwig Reschke - 1918 - 220 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 — und all is grey. Jeder Satz, jedes Wort so inhaltsschwer, wie jeder einzelne...
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Intensifying Similes in English ...

Torsten Hilding Svartengren - 1918 - 558 pages
...(Hazlitt's Dodsley, vi, 14). The dolphin was often introduced metaphorically in descriptions of beauty. Cf. Parting day/ Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues/ With a new colour . . The last still loveliest. Byron, 1818, NED. See note to Jonson, Alch. IV, i, 160, dolphin's milk....
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English Poems: From the College Entrance Requirements in English

Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pages
...strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues 260 With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 't is gone — and all is gray. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd in...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 796 pages
...during the rainy season, when a reddish kind of earth is washed into the river. Evening approaches, and the — - parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray 1" We are approaching Djebail or Gebail, the supposed land of...
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