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
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE. 1. THE PLEASURES OF Hora. — Campbell. 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 cUfis of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near.? 'T is distance lends... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 612 pages
...PLEASURES OF HOPE. AT Bummer eve, when Heav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering In l U below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose...the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear Mure sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'Tie distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes... | |
| Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 342 pages
...his own." The first sample I have to notice occurs at the opening of the " Pleasures of Hope :" — " Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Garth has... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE. 1. THE PLEASURES OP HOPE. — Campbell. AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethfijeal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon •—• untnin turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? "Why do those... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE. 1. THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. — Camphdl, 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 T 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...extreme joy 7. PEAL' ED, resounded. PLEASURES OF HOPE. THOMAS OAUFBKLL. 1. 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 these hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 1 'Tis distance... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1859 - 424 pages
...vengeance on the violators of justice and THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,...musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky 1 Why do those cliffis of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near !— *Tis... | |
| Salem Town - Readers - 1859 - 496 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...musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the skyf Why do those hills, of shadowy tint, appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'Tis... | |
| William Grant Stewart - 1860 - 370 pages
...PART VIII. TOURS AND TOURISTS. CHAPTER I. Highland Tours and Tourists. " On summer eve, when heaven's aerial bow, Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountains turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summits mingle with the sky?" CAMPBELL. WHAT a mighty... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...hills Mow, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, WboM eonbright summit mingles with the sky Í Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? ~L< distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight,... | |
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