Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2111814Full view - About this book
| John Galt - 1842 - 350 pages
...divine ; — Descending fast, the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconiiuer'd Salamis ! t . Their azure arches, through the long expanse, More...deep, . Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep. The opening of the Giaour is a more genefel description, but the locality is distinctly marked by reference... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1842 - 504 pages
...altar? are no more divine ; Descending fast, the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquer'd Salamis ! Their azure arches, through the long expanse...from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinlu to deep." Cortair. To return to the school .of young ladies in Mr. Hill's family. These young... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1842 - 490 pages
...tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark hia gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Til!, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep." Corsair. To return to the school of young ladies in Mr. Hill's family. These young women are destined... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1842 - 468 pages
...tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly ehaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep." Corsair. To return to the school of young ladies in Mr. Hill's family. These young women are destined... | |
| John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 pages
...altars are no more divine, , Descending fast the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquer'd Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse...deep. Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep." The island of Egina is distant nearly 20 miles from the Pirœus, and nearly the same from Epidaurus.... | |
| G. A. Perdicaris - 1845 - 336 pages
...altars are no more divine. Descending fast, the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquer"d Salamis ! Their azure arches, through the long expanse,...deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep." On our return to the khan we rolled down the hill, and in seeking our way through by-paths and alleys,... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 pages
...no more divine ; Descending fttt, the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquer'd SsUmis ! Their azure arches, through the long expanse More...deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep." COTHUT. To return to the school of young ladies in Mr. Hill's family. These young women are destined... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1845 - 438 pages
...gulf, unconquer'd Salamis! Their axure arches through the long expanse, More deeply purpled ineel hia mellowing glance. And tenderest tints, along their...land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to ateep." The columns of the temple of Jupiter Olympius produced the same effects on the enthusiastic... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - 1845 - 408 pages
...meliowing glance. And lenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hue? of heaven, Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sieep." The columns of the temple of Jupiter Olympius produced the same effects on the enthusiastic... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...altars are no more divine. Descending fast the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquer'd On such an eve, his palest beam he cast, When. Athens! here thy wisest lookM his last How watch'd thy... | |
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