 | 1828 - 514 pages
...only prospect, beauty ; he reclines upon earth, whose every clod is a sepulchre of greatness, and he is canopied by a sky " So cloudless, pure, and beautiful, That God alone is to be seen in heaven''' SENSIBILITY. A rare instance of sensibility occurred in Paris not long since, in the person of a cook.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 616 pages
...only prospect, beauty ; he reclines upon earth, whose every clod is a sepulchre of greatness, and he is canopied by a sky " So cloudless, pure, and beautiful, That God alone is to be seen in heaven."' We would willingly have given the sketch of Sardis, which is attractive, though too inflatedly written... | |
 | 1829 - 504 pages
...only prospect beauty ; he reclines upon earth, whose every clod is a sepulchre of greatness, and he is canopied by a sky ' So cloudless, pure, and beautiful, That God alone is to be seeu in Heaven.' " P. 143—S. There is also good descriptive writing) and much sound feeling, in the... | |
 | 1829 - 492 pages
...only prospect beauty ; he reclines upon earth, whose every clod is a sepulchre of greatness, and he is canopied by a sky ' So cloudless, pure, and beautiful, That God aloue is to be seeu in Heaven.' " P. 143—5. There is also good descriptive writing, and much sound... | |
 | 1829 - 622 pages
...only prospect. beauty ; he reclines upon earth, whose every clod is a sepulchre of greatness, and he is canopied by a sky " So cloudless, pure, and beautiful, That God aloue is to be seen in heaven."' We would willingly have given the sketch of Sardis, which is attractive,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1827 - 604 pages
...only prospect, beauty ; he reclines upon earth, whose every clod is a sepulchre of greatness, and he is canopied by a sky " So cloudless, pure, and beautiful. That God alone is to be seen in heaven.'' Our route towards Laodicea, on leaving Ephesus, lay along the plains that separate Mount Pactyas from... | |
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... save those which he carries with him, and no companions but his thoughts. But these are sufficient, and they spring up with every breath, and at every turning : his very loneliness is sublimity ; his only prospect beauty ; he reclines upon earth,... 