 Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near...  The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems - Page 3by Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 606 pages
...title of that beautiful work. It is in the opening lines, as follows : — At summer eve, when Heaven's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to y'n mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 396 pages
...violators of justice flfe mercy. THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,...appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near i — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...the principles of criticism will sanction. • 11 Pleasures of Hope. AT summer's eve, when heaven's aerial bow Spans, with bright arch, the glittering...sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 1 'Tis distance lends enchantment... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...the violator! of justice and mercy. PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,...sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those clifis of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?'T is distance lends enchantment... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...on the violators of justice and mercy. THE PLEASUKES OF HOPE, PAET I. AT summer eve, when Heay'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills...musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky P Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 pages
...wot made the opening of the new poem. " At summer eve, when Heaven's eihereaJ bow Spans with brighl arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose gimbright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet that)... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1855 - 38 pages
...vengeance on the violators of justice and mercy. THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. AT summer eve, when Heav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills...appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? — B THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...threo. LESSON XXIII. PLEASURES OF HOPE.— CAMPBELL. [See page 210.] 1. At summer's eve, when heaven's aerial bow Spans, with bright arch, the glittering...sun-bright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those hills, of shadowy tint, appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling neart 'Tis distance lends... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 pages
...or the principles of criticism will sanction. 11. Pleasures of Hope. AT summer's eve, when heaven's aerial bow Spans, with bright arch, the glittering...eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky 1 Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 1 'Tis distance... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...for ever. HOPE. A fine passage in CAMPBELL'S Pleasures of Hope. AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,...shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smilmg near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.... | |
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