 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape time's meek twilight steals ! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play ; Thy tempered gleams ol happiness resigned, Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. The school's lone porch, with reverend... | |
 | Richard Claiborne - 1821 - 16 pages
...contribute materially tu the interest of the country." May we not add, of the world at large ? So, when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play ; Each sloping woodland, and each mountain height, Drinks the soft effluence of retiring light ; And... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 424 pages
...description of the latter poet, — it being more congenial with the spirit of our remarks : — " The school's lone porch, with reverend mosses gray,...the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn : Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air, When the slow dial gave... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
..."What soften'd views thy magic glass reveals. When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals ! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play ; Thy temper'd gleams of happiness resign'd Glance on the darken'd mirror of the mind. " Ah, then, what honest... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...of Memory," " As throngh the garden's desert paths I rove, What fond illusions swarm in every grove, Mute is the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn. All, all are fled ; yet still I linger here I What secret charms this... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pages
...Lollanls.' REMINISCENCES OF CHILDHOOD. The school's lone porch with reverend mosses grey, Just tellg the pensive pilgrim where It lay. Mute is the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn : Unheard the shont that rent the noontide air, When the slow dial gave... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals! r b jO@[ * it-signed (.l.ni. i on the darkened mirror of the mind. The School's lone porch, with reverend mosses... | |
 | 1829 - 348 pages
...pen of the accomplished author of the ' Loll"'d8'' The school's lone porch with reverend mosies grey, Just tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay. Mute...the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn : Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air. When the slow dial gave... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...\\ hat soften'd views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals ! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play; Thy temper' d gleams of happiness resign'd Glance on the darkcn'd mirror of the miud. The School's loue... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...resign'd Glance on the darken'd mirror of the mind. The School's lone porch, with reverend mosses grey, Just tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay. Mute...the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn : Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air, When the slow dial gave... | |
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Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm, When nature fades and life forgets to charm; Thee would the Muse invoke! — to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song. 
