 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 pages
...NUMBEH OF THE THOJAN FIHES. Thus the brave Trojans and their leagued bands Struck on the shield of Ajax. 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...first, the famous description of the " refulgent lamp of night " which Pope has adapted from Homer : — 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 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... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1867 - 384 pages
...new risen, Looks through the misty, horizontal air Shorn of his beams ; " and in Pope's Homer : — " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure shed her sacred light." In this aspect the English differs from all other languages. The old Greek... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...kindness done, when power Had left the wretch an uncorrupted hour. Don Juan, Canto II THE MOON BISING. 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... | |
 | George Harris - 1869 - 338 pages
...fine night, when all the groves and mountains are illumined, and all the planets are visible : — " 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... | |
 | George Harris - 1869 - 332 pages
...fine night, when all the groves and mountains are illumined, and all the planets are visible : — " 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... | |
 | Frederick Martin - 1869 - 304 pages
...Chapman's Homer : — "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 does overcast... | |
 | Homerus - 1870 - 552 pages
...guilty race. The troops exulting sat in order round, 685 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, 690 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... 
