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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on ... - Page 55
by Samuel Johnson - 1781
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...687. As when the moon,- refulgent lamp o£. night, O'er heaven's clear azure fprcads- her fa* cred light ; When not a breath . difturbs the deep ferene;. And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemnfcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets rail, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...the rifing morn. As when in ftiLlnefs of the filent night, As when the moon in all her luftre bright, As when the moon refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure Jheds hery£7i«r light ; pure fpreads facred As ftill in air the trembling luftre flood, And o'er...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 32

1797 - 490 pages
...Al when the Moon, refplmdent lamp of • night, O'er Heav'ns clear azure fpreads her facrtd I'ght ; When not a breath difturbs the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafts ihe folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing...
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The Weekly entertainer; or agreeable and instructive repository ..., Volumes 3-4

1784 - 1282 pages
...with tiljrer beams.— In fhort, jt wa.! a* the poet exprcflcs himfelf: THE WEEKLY ENTERTAINER. 34.1 As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...difturbs the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafts the folcmn fcene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole...
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Lettres sur l'Égypte: où l'on offre le parallèle des moeurs ..., Volume 1

Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - 1834 - 598 pages
...felicity : — " The troops exulting sate in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...; The fons of Dares firft the combat fought, A wealthy prieft, but rich Without a fault. Condition of Book VIII. v. 687. As when the moon, refulgent...a breath difturbs the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'crcafts the folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...The font of Dares firft the combat fought, A wealthy prieft, but rich without a fault. ' tonflufion of Book VIII. v. 687. As when the moon, refulgent...facred light; When not a breath difturbs the deep lerene, And not a cloud o'crcafts the folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets r6ll, And...
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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...in Mr. Pope's Homer will evince that the Sublime may excite fenfations very different from terror. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure fpreads her facred light j When not a breath difturbs the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemn fcene ; Around her...
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Anthologia Hibernica: Or, Monthly Collections of Science, Belles ..., Volume 1

1793 - 542 pages
...Pope's tranflation. The troops exulting fate in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure fpreads her facred Hght, à % When not a bit.'.th diÜuibs the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafrs the folc-rnn fcene....
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...guilty race. The troops exulting f.it in order round, And beaming fires illumin'd all the ground ; As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure fpreads herfacred li When not a breath difturbs the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemn fcene...
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