 Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath...  The Seasons: By James Thomson - Page 5by James Thomson - 1800 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...loaded sky, and mingling deep, Sits on th' hoiizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry-storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle,...of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect caim ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling... | |
 | 1830 - 188 pages
...young herbage. £uch a one is thus described by Thomson. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect culm : that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing...woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. —————— At last The clouds consign their treasures to the fields; The stealing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...of every joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinke the breeze Into a perfect calm, that not a brealh la heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The on curling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem, through di lutsive lapse, Forgetful... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...the loaded sky ; and mingling deep, Sits on th* horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of ev'ry hope and ev'ry joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...mingling deep Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom: Not such as wintry-storms on mortals shad, Oppressing life; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full...rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspin tall. Th' uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...gloom : s'ot such as wintry storms on mortals shed, )ppressing life : but lovely, gentle, kind, Vnd full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Jito a perfect calm ; that not a' breath a beard to quiver through the closing woode, »r rustling... | |
 | James Thomson - 1838 - 236 pages
...Along the loaded sky, and mingling deep Sits on th' horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life; but lovely,...woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. Th' uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 784 pages
...the aspen : — — — " His hand did quake And tremble like a leaf of aspen green." SfFMHF.il. " A perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver...woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen talL" Тпомпох. Sir W. Scott has many allusions to this tree ; particularly in the wellknown... | |
 | 1838 - 348 pages
...hope, of ev'ry joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the hreexe Into a perfeet calm, that not a hreath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. Th' uneurling floods, diIfused In glaesy hreadth, seem, through delusive lapse, Forgetful... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 796 pages
...did quake And tremble like a leaf of aspen green." , SPENUI. " A perfect calm ; that not a breath IB heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaved Of aspen tall." THOMPSON. Sir W. Scott has many allusions to this tree ; particularly in the... | |
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