 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pages
...opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 416 pages
...opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses 3 Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted...vale of flowers, . , Is sleeping rosy at his feet. • . I y • » To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 pages
...in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses* Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flower* Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions... | |
 | 1818 - 798 pages
...opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous mustjhave been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pages
...roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must^have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 pages
...the world. One lordly mountain indeed remains immutably the same, Whose head in wintry grandeur towen And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Lies sleeping rosy at his feet. And well may it be called the " Sovereign Blanc/' It is a singular... | |
 | 1872 - 348 pages
...in magnificent repose ; and of it one of our poets says : " Like a glory, the broad sun Hangs o'er sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." The Lebanon range is properly an immense tract of mountainous country, about 100 miles in length. Its... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...crowns fair Lebanon's aspiring brow." " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." MOORE'S Paradise and the Peri. " Down in a vale where lucid waters strayed And mountain-cedars stretched... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 424 pages
...harshness of the foregoing criticism. " Now, upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted...eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is deeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 326 pages
...roses* Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LERANON; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a.vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. \ To one, who Inok'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted... | |
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Now, upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at... 
