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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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Wing and wing

James Fenimore Cooper - 1912 - 492 pages
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Life of Brian Houghton Hodgson: British Resident at the Court of Nepal

William Wilson Hunter - 1991 - 422 pages
...to watch the sun setting across the Mediterranean, softly repeating to himself Byron's lines : — " 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." ' In home-life he was a pattern of courtesy. His servants...
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Venice Desired

Tony Tanner - 1992 - 424 pages
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Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society

Jerome Christensen - 1993 - 464 pages
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; is majesty was always so polite Ae to announce his...Before he came, especially at night ; For being the tUl— 'tis gone — and all is gray. XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd in...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 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 - 'tis gone - and all is gray. There is a tomb in Arqua; - rear'd in air, Pillar'd in their sarcophagus,...
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Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds: English Fantasies of Venice

Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - 1999 - 268 pages
...earth: "the icy earth/Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air" (Byron 1980-1993, vol. 4, 40)1' 1 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. (IV, 29) 3. "Cette Palmyre de la mer" The fata morgana-\iAat quality...
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Fish, the Basics: An Illustrated Guide to Selecting and Cooking Fresh Seafood

Shirley King - 1999 - 388 pages
...however, as they die: Their skin turns a silvery gray the longer they are out of water. Lord Byron wrote: 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 The bodies of dolphinfish are very compressed, and the males...
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Lord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for Opposition

Joanne Wilkes - 1999 - 232 pages
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...the mischievous gargoyle (imitative base garg; whence also gargle and gurgle), imbricate. Seeandho. 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, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, iv om(s): shoulder. Gk omos. omodynia....
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