 | Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1842 - 376 pages
...There was no peculiar beauty in the sunset — only»the «un himself appeared remarkably brilliant, " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." i Prom. Vinct. 89. E 50 VOYAGE TO ALEXANDRIA — COAST OF GREECE. The swallows kept... | |
 | 1844 - 834 pages
...afterwards poured the light of his genius over those lands of the sun where his descending orb set — ' Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, • But one unclouded blaze of living light." Scotland, my lord, may well be proud of such men, but she can no longer call these exclusively... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 656 pages
...they rivalled, I may say far surpassed, Byron's description of the sun setting along Morea's height: ' Not as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light,' • The rarefaction of the atmosphere, which gave rise to a new and most beautiful aspect... | |
 | 1860 - 620 pages
...his progress in the cloudy atmosphere of Europe, and the whole horizon glows with ruddy lustre ; " Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." At DO other moment does the verdure of th« mountain woods appear so vivid ; each spray... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Tripolizza to Mistra - 12 M. Mil. О 11 О О 11 2O О О " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in northern...climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throw«, Gilds the green wave, that trembles... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 pages
...illustrious men, in his undying poetry. " Slew sinks, more lovely ore his nee be run, Along Morca's bills the setting sun ; Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one undauded blaze of livmg light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1845 - 438 pages
...afterwards poured the light of his genius over those lands of the sun, where his descending orb sets — " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." Scotland, my lord, may well be proud of having given birth to, or awakened the genius... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - 1845 - 336 pages
...described by Byron : " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills, the setting son ; Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles... | |
 | William Dansey - 1845 - 178 pages
...in putting into his prose the second line of Byron's splendid description of a sunset at Athens, " Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light," you will have the leaves for nothing." Indeed the whole work bears evident marks of... | |
 | 1845 - 656 pages
...the reproach of foreigners ; but deeply, beautifully blue, with a tropical sun, as Byron says — " Not, as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light" — entirely superseding stoves and hot-beds, and all our expensive apparatus for the... | |
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Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! 
