 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pages
...On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ning with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With...moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet. Before they enter the nuptial bower, Adam pauses, and veils his expected felicity in this chaste and... | |
 | Theocritus - 1836 - 450 pages
...this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With...Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet." Paradise. Lost, book iv. 356 THEOCRITUS. IDYL IX. It was a superstitious opinion that those, on whose... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 436 pages
...this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With...Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet." Paradise Lost, book iv. IDYL IX. It was a superstitious opinion that those, on whose noses or tongues... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, Wilh this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pages
...In this delightful land, nor herir, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With...moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet The variety of images in this passage is infinitely pleasing; and the recapitulation of each particular... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With...moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers -, Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With...moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With...moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With...moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. 3* TROPES. THE CORAL INSECT.— MRS, SieooRifET, Toil on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 522 pages
...On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this...moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet." This passage has double charms.for me, painted by the hand of truth; and for the same reason, that... | |
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But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn... 
