| 1821 - 614 pages
...her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unmimber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. BOOK VIII. Can any one, indeed, look either at the sun, or the moon, or the stars, without a feeling... | |
| 1821 - 336 pages
...her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. I fear the enthusiastic admirers of Homer would look upon me with much indignation, were they to hear... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And dp with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimm'ring Xanthus with their rays : The long... | |
| 1821 - 398 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimm'ring Xanthus with their rays : The long... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimm'ring Xanthus with their rays : The long... | |
| 1821 - 400 pages
...unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimm'ring Xanthus with their rays : The long... | |
| Charles Butler - 1822 - 706 pages
...throne the vivid planets roll, " And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole, " O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, "And tip with silver every..." Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." To the preference which Melmoth claims for the translation of this passage, over the original, an admirer... | |
| Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. POPE'S Translation of the Iliad. LION AND HORSE FIGHT. A NOBLEMAN in the early part of the reign of... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 520 pages
...her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every...sight, Eye the blue vault and bless the useful light." Frank repeated these lines as if he felt their spirit thoroughly. Mary was so much struck with them,... | |
| Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...her tin-one the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumberM gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays: The long reflections... | |
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