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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;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ... - Page 55
by Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 503 pages
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...Uares first the iombal suught ' A wealtby priest, but rich without a fault. Conclusion of Boot viii. r. 687. 'As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreadsW sacred light When not a breath di.turbs the deep serene! And not a cloud o'crcasts the solemn...
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Popular Philosophy; Or, The Book of Nature Laid Open Upon Christian ...

George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...now are vanished ! — Virtue sole survives, Immortal, never failing, friend of man," t THE MOON. " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night. O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light, O'er the dark trees, a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24

1828 - 1538 pages
...Ambrosiana; returns, and she is made again to feel the exquisite beauty of those lines of Homer and Pope— " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her sacreU light 1" We must not, however, be too severe on the world, whose chief fault, after...
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A scriptural and allegorical glossary to Milton's Paradise lost

Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...to every land, , The work of an Almighty hand. 175 Moon, that now meets the orient sun, now fly'st, 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 American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

1829 - 440 pages
...vme'payH fanrrrix orfifj, v T' viJ tra d5-T{»- •yvyiiBt ti TI $£H* mi/jait' — Il. viii. 555. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the sweet serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

1829 - 434 pages
...vrnffotyn fovnrK iudn'g, n«»T* ft T' tifrrtu dirTjif yry&t t\ TI $§(»« trafaif — II. viii. 555. ui, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the sweet serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...
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Travels in Greece and Albania, Volume 1

T. S.. Hughes - 1830 - 546 pages
...nature that noble scene, whose beauties it is scarcely possible to transfuse into any foreign dialect. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light; When not a brealh disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...
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Travels in Greece and Albania, Volume 2

Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 550 pages
...nature that noble scene, whose beauties it is scarcely possible to transfuse into any foreign dialect. 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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Georgiana and Her Father, Or, Conversation on Natural Phenomena

Selina Martin - 1832 - 242 pages
...comprises her day and night. How beautifully poetic is the description of night in the Iliad : • 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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Summer flowers, from the garden of wisdom

Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 pages
...vene by Pope.) The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illnmin'd 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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