 | 1833 - 444 pages
...nocturnal painting, but Milton's description, it must be observed, leaves off where that of Homer begins. " 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... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1834 - 592 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... | |
 | 1835 - 396 pages
...our next. And here I take my Leave of the fweet Nofturnal Vifitor in the beautiful Lines of Pope. So when the Moon, refulgent Lamp of Night, O'er Heaven's clear Azure fpreads her facred Light S When not a Breath difturbs the Deep ferene, And not a Cloud o'ercafis the folemn Scene ; Around her... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...501. We add one more specimen, where the beauty of the imagery demands the exercise of poetic talent. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud overcasts the solemn... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...Dnres first the comhat sought, A wealthy priest, hut rich without a fault. CONCLCSION or BOOK vin. spreads her sacred light, When not a hreath disturhs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 pages
...the moonlight. As when in stillness of the silent night. As when the moon in all her lustre bright. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her silver light ; pure spreads sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stood, And o'er its... | |
 | 1838 - 598 pages
...full moon burst out in a flood of glory, realising Homer's noble description of an Asiatic 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... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...glitters, and the shepherd's heart is cheer'd. — Cowper. How has Pope rendered this description ? 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... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 pages
...: the Moonlight Scene, in the eighth hook, I here give as a specimen of Pope's translation : — " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! " O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light j " When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, " And not a cloud o'ercasts... | |
 | 1838 - 604 pages
...full moon burst out in a flood of glory, realising Homer's noble description of an Asiatic night — " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, . < O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light — When not a breath disturhs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts... | |
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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... 
