| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...massy Stygian woof, but loose array'd 1 685 And rocks, and mountain-tops, that long retain'd 1 690 Th' ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene ;...beheld. Sudden to heaven Thence weary vision turns ; where, leading soft The silent hours of love, with purest ray Sweet Venus shines ; and from her genial... | |
| James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...the straining eye ; While wavering woods , and villages, and streRms , And rocks and mountain- tops, that long retain'd Th' ascending gleam , are all one...swimming scene , Uncertain if beheld. Sudden to heaven Tlience weary vision turns ; where , leading soft The silent hours of love , with purest ray Sweet... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...While wav'ring woods, and villages, and streams, And rocks, and mountain-tops, that long retain' d Th' ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld. Sudden to heav'n Thence weary vision turns; where, leading soft The silent hours of love, with purest ray Sweet... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...dun. A faint erroneous ray, Glanced from th' imperfect surfaces of things, Flings half an image on the straining eye; While wavering woods, and villages, and streams, And rocks, and mountain tops, that long retain'd Th' ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld.... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...dun. A faint erroneous ray, Glanced from th' imperfect surfaces of things, Flings half an image on the straining eye; While wavering woods, and villages, and streams, And rocks, and mountain tops, that long retain'd Th' ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld.... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...A faint erroneous ray , Glanc'd from th' imperfect surfaces of things, Flings half an image on the straining eye; While wavering woods , and villages...beheld. Sudden to heaven Thence weary vision turns ; where, leading soft The silent hours of love; with purest ray Sweet Venus shines , and from her genial... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...dun. A faint erroneous ray, Glanc'd from th' imperfect surfaces of things, Flings half an image on the straining eye, While wavering woods, and villages,...streams, And rocks, and mountain-tops, that long retain'd 1690 Th'ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld. Sudden to heaven Thence weary... | |
| James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...A faint erroneous, ray, Glanc'd from th' imperfect surfaces of things, Flings half an image on the straining eye; While wavering woods, and villages,...swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld. Sudden to heaven 1693 Thence weary vision turns; where, leading soft The silent hours of love, with purest ray Sweet... | |
| James Thomson, Thomas Parnell - 1808 - 338 pages
...thing! ,' Flings half an image on. the straining eye ; While wavering woods, and villages, and si reams/ And rocks and mountain-tops, that long retain'd Th' ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene,' Cucertain if beheld. Sudden to heaven Thence weary vision turns ; where , leading soft The silent hours... | |
| James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...A faint erroneous ray, Glanc'd from the' imperfect surfaces of things, Flings half an image on the straining eye ; While wavering woods, and villages, and streams, And rocks, and mountain lops, that long rctain'd The' ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, I .'ncertain if... | |
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