| 1846 - 730 pages
...still dizzy from the whirl of fashionable dissipation : " Slow sinks, more lovely e'er its race be run, Along Morea's hills, the setting sun ; Not, as in...climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." This is description ! This is Poetry ! Here we have, as it were, by a few masterly strokes... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...Como ancor non m* ahbandona. DANTE. 1. SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along M ore a1 s ntl living light ! O'er the hushM deep the yellow beam he throw*, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...THIRD. "Come vedi — ancor non m'abbandona." — DANTE. Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, i trusting himself alone, ami working out his own deep-buried...thoughts, he now, perhaps, fell into a habit •f living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...For they appeal from tyranny to God. SUNSET IN GREECE. 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 hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave that trembles as... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 628 pages
...between Genoa and Marseilles, were those beginning ' Slow sinks, more lovely 'ere his race be run, Behind Morea's hills the setting sun ; 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 as... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 646 pages
...between Genoa and Marseilles, were those beginning ' Slow sinks, more lovely 'ere his race be run, Behind Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded Haze of living light, O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave that trembles... | |
| Edwin Lee - 1848 - 408 pages
...From this hill Claude Lorraine was in the habit of watching the sinking sun make his " golden set," " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light," and noting the varied tints produced in " the bright tract of his fiery car," which... | |
| 1872 - 676 pages
...air; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild." Byron. " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun, Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, Bat one unclouded blaze of living light." Shellty. " daisies and delicate bells, As fair as the fabulous... | |
| William Edward Baxter - 1850 - 412 pages
...the Pyrseus when he penned those graphic lines : — " 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 throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 462 pages
...phantoms fair." XIX. dDraittal ITrart mtfr €lmit Mm. " 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." Byron. A FTEK leaving the Dardanelles, we stopped again at Smyrna, -£L where I took... | |
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