Half-circling hills, whose everlasting woods Sweep with their sable skirts the shadowy floods: And say, when all, to holy transport given, Embraced and wept as at the gates of Heaven, When one and all of us, repentant, ran, And, on our faces, blessed... The Quarterly Review - Page 217edited by - 1813Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pages
...descried it at midnight.. The lines are very happily executed ; but the author should have made hii choice betwixt the two suppositions. Canto eighth.—'...have the old expedient of an £ hiatus' — valde defleudus, if the author thought any thing ought to be added, and very absurd if he did not, — Mr.... | |
| 1813 - 566 pages
...descried it at :uidnight. The lines are very happily executed ; but the author should have made his choice betwixt the two suppositions. Canto eighth.—"...the shadowy floods." These lines too are very good HO far as they go : but, though we have the old expedient of an " hiatus" — valde defldndus, if the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 556 pages
...descried it at midnight. The lines are very happily executed ; but the author should have made his choice betwixt the two suppositions. Canto eighth....Half-circling hills, whose everlasting woods, Sweep with their sahle skirts the shadowy floods.' These lines too are very good so far as they go : but, though we... | |
| 1813 - 1102 pages
...descried it at midnight. The lines are very happily executed ; but the author should have made his choice betwixt the two suppositions. Canto eighth.—' The -New World' opens thus. ' Long on the wave th6 morning mists repose ; They rise—and melting into light disclose Half-circling hills, whose everlasting... | |
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| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...World. LONG on the wave the morning mists reposed, Then broke — and, melting inio light, disclosed Half-circling hills, whose everlasting woods Sweep with their sable skirts the shadowy floods : And say, when all, to holy transport given. Embraced and wept as at the gates ol" Heaven, When one... | |
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...enterprise. " Long on the wave the morning mists reposed, Then broke — and, melting into light, disclosed Half-circling hills, whose everlasting woods Sweep with their sable skirts the shadowy floods: And say, when all, to holy transport given, Embraced and wept as at the gates of Heaven, Where one... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 330 pages
...The New World. LONG on the deep the mists of morning lay, Then rose, revealing, as they rolled away, Half-circling hills, whose everlasting woods Sweep with their sable skirts the shadowy floods: And say, when all, to holy transport given, Embraced and wept as at the gates of Heaven, When one and... | |
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