 Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles, Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly...  Notes and Queries - Page 3391872Full view - About this book
 | Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 pages
...or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, * Fingal, bi VOL. II. 2 I A vast assembly moving to and fro : Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rous show.* The singular yet -pleasing tradition of the souls of the deceased pursuing the chase upon their native... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. XXXI. Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound ! Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. XXXI. Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound! Whose soft dominion Q'W this castle sways, And all the... | |
 | James Beattie - 1803 - 240 pages
...plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro; ' Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. EPISTLE. Hunton, near Maldstonc, Kent, August 1787. TRAVELLING," saith Horace, somewhere, in a letter,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 236 pages
...dips his wain, * Those islands on the western coast of Scotland called the Hebrides. A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rous show. XXXI. . Ye gods of Quiet, and of Sleep profound ! Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...plain,) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phosbus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wonderous show.* I cannot at present recollect any solitude so romantic, or peopled with beings so... | |
 | James Beattie, James Hay Beattie - 1807 - 212 pages
...plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro ; Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rous show. ESSAYS AND FRAGMENTS. EPISTLE. Hunton, near Maidstone, Kent, August 1787. TRAVELLING," saith Horace,... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly -moving to and fro; Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show, Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound ! Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all the widely... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, Hie whilst in ocean Phcebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro : Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. Ye gods of quiet and of sleep profound, Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all the wildly... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phcebiu dips in wain, A vast assembly u to me, from me to Peter Ye gods of quiet and of sleep profound, W hose soft dominion o'er tnis castle sways, And all the wildly... | |
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