 | English poetry - 1865 - 410 pages
...clinging to those walls And the fox nestles in those halls. HENRY NEF.LE. AN ENGLISH LANDSCAPE. JOW I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies...no vapours intervene ; But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's bow, And swelling to embrace the light, Spreads... | |
 | Arnold James Cooley - 1865 - 264 pages
...murmuring in the distance ; and I see the white sails that bear the wandering mariners along." " ' Now I gain the mountain's brow ; " ' What a landscape...lies below ! " ' No clouds, no vapours intervene, " ' To obscure the lovely scene.' "l " Is it not beautiful ? It awakens in my memory the joys of by-gone... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 120 pages
...spreads, Adds a thousand woods and meads; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow; What a landscape lies below! No clouds, no vapors intervene; But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's... | |
 | English poetry - 1865 - 398 pages
...mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's bow, So AN ENGLISH LANDSCAPE. And swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight. Old castles... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 pages
...been employed to execute the work. — GIBBON. Translate the following passage into Latin Verse : — Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies...no vapours intervene ; But the gay, the open scene, Does the face of Nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow ; And swelling to embrace the light,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...bonnet and the plume. SIR w. SCOTT 624 GRONGAR HILL NOW I gain the mountain's brow, what a landskip lies below! no clouds, no vapours intervene, but the gay, the open scene, does the face of nature show, in all the hues of heaven's bow ; and swelling to embrace the light spreads... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pages
...lines will show how indispensable activity, real or fictitious, is to a good poetical description. " Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouda, no vapors intervene, But the gay, the open scene, Does the face of Nature show, In all the... | |
 | W. Samuel - 1868 - 216 pages
...spreads, Adds a thousand woods and meads Still it widens — widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill; Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape...no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open scene, Does the face of nature show In all the hues of heaven's bow ! And, swelling to embrace the light,... | |
 | 1870 - 154 pages
...spreads, Adds a thousand woods and meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapors, intervene ; But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...spreads, Adds a thousand woods and meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. he souls mounting up to God Went by her vapors intervene ; But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's... | |
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What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open scene, Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow; And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight. 
