 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
 | Thomas Campbell - 1864 - 328 pages
...vengeance on the violators of justice and mercy. g PART I. AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spang with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose suubright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1864 - 154 pages
...niumng eye. Whose sun-bright, summit mingl es with the sky'" POEM. 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 ? — "Pis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...bright visions of Hope? He thus announces his beautiful theme: — At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,...all the landscape smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantmenf to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE. 1. THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. — Campbell. AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,...with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appealMore sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? Tis distance lends enchantment "to the view,... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - Biography - 1867 - 1030 pages
...pleased, and the new comparison was made the opening of the new " At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musinp eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...anything to object to, it is the three-fold iteration of the one idea of light. " Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? " Another graphic touch that does not require, much labor of comprehension. ' Shadowy tint ' is not... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1869 - 634 pages
...Pleasures of Hope " is only j an echo of Norris in his "Infidel." Here are both. First Campbell :— " Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright...appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? ' Tit distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Now Norris... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...condition of mankind. CLVIII.— PLEASURES OF HOPE. THOMAS CAMPBELL. AT summer's eve, when heaven's aerial bow Spans, with bright arch, the glittering...Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do these hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 pages
...on the violators of justice and mercy. THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. AT summer eve, when Heaven's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills...musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky 'I Why do those cliff's or shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? —... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...of rhythm, beauty, and force of expression. PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. AT summer eve, when heaven's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills...appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'Ti? distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with... | |
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