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" 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 solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild... "
The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on ... - Page 55
by Samuel Johnson - 1781
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An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...The Indian Emperor. And here the moonlight scene in Homer as rendered by Pope and by Cowper : — " 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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Outlines of English literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...celebrated description of a moonlight night, so severely yet justly criticised by Wordsworth : — " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...guilty race. The troops, exulting, sat 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 Mother's Magazine and Family Circle, Volume 18

1850 - 408 pages
...which, for their highly wrought poetic description, are said to have no equal. They are as follows : " 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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Transactions of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, with ..., Volume 4

Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1861 - 736 pages
...then the stars, unfolding like precious gems, as watchers in the sky, or lamps to light our way, ' As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her a, cred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...
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Popular Poetry: a Selection of Pieces Old and New, Adapted for General Use

Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...spread ; And the pale glow-worm shows her light, To guide me home at fall of night. Caswall. NIGHT. 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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Beautiful thoughts from Greek authors, with Engl. transl. and lives of the ...

Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 424 pages
...uffircros cuW)/>,] тгагта Sé т ctocrai Латра, уеучве Sé те фрет тгоцщу. 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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Homer and the Iliad [tr. in verse, with notes] by J.S. Blackie, Volume 1

Homerus - 1866 - 506 pages
...version is — " The troops exulting sat 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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Outlines of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 pages
...the celebrated description of a moonlight night, so severely yet justly criticised by Wordsworth :— "As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing...
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Homeric dissertations

John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 550 pages
...version is — " The troops exulting sat 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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