 Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near...  The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems - Pagina 3door Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 160 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1799 - 614 pagina’s
...remote objects in a landscape, and the anticipation of remote futurity : ' At summer eve, when Heav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills...summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowytint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'Tib distance lends enchantment... | |
 | 1799 - 746 pagina’s
...our duty, that of commending. The ppening has great fpirit apd beauty. " At fnmmereve, when hrav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the muling eye, Whofe funbright fummit mingles with the (ky ? Why do ihofe cliffs of fhadowy tint appear... | |
 | 1799 - 618 pagina’s
...the. anticipation of remote futurity: -ii«j.jj3 ' At summer eve, when Heav'n's aerial bow ti :/• Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below. Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, "i "> Whose sun-bright summit mingles with, the jky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear A... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1799 - 614 pagina’s
...occupies the greater part of the volume, theie are the opening lines : ' At rummer eve, when heav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the muting eye, • Whofe funbright fummit mingles with the fky ? Why do thofe cliffs of fhadowy tint appear... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1800 - 168 pagina’s
...vengeance on the violators of juftice and mercy. PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. fummer eve, when Heav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the mufing eye, Whofe funbright fummit mingles with the fky ? Why do thofe cliffs of fhadowy tint appear... | |
 | James Johnson - 1807 - 430 pagina’s
...setting sun. " At summer's eye, when Heaven's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering scene below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose...sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliiis of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the ocean smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1812 - 160 pagina’s
...vengeance on the violators of justice and mercy. A PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. AT summer eve, when Heav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, "hose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear iMore sweet... | |
 | Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - 1812 - 648 pagina’s
...of which we were invited to partake. HARRIET'S BIRTH-DAY. 131 CHAP. 13. At summer eve, when heaven's aerial bow, Spans with bright arch, the glittering hills below. Why to yon mountain turns the lingering eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1813 - 164 pagina’s
...the viotatois of justice and merey. A I THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. AT summer eve, when Heav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills...sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those clifts of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?— 'Tis distance lends... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pagina’s
...forth. How serenely beautiful the opening of Campbell's immortal poem : " Atsummer eve, when heaven's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills...below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunlit summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all... | |
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