 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pages
...Filled with the face of heaven, which from afar Comes down upon the waters : all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1851 - 318 pages
...Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters: all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...Filled with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 346 pages
...cannot resist quoting it. It shows how minutely the sailor poet must have observed. Byron tells us how " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — tis gone, and all is gray." Falconer, in... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 384 pages
...cannot resist quoting it. It shows how minutely the sailor poet must have observed. Byron tells us how " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — tis gone, and all is gray." Falconer, in... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 352 pages
...cannot resist quoting it. It shows how minutely the sailor poet must have observed. Byron tells us how "Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — tis gone, and all is gray." Falconer, in... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 298 pages
...star, Their magical variety diffuse : ON THE THEORY OF WIT. And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like...each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, 'till—'tis gone—and all is gray"* The comparison here is quite equal... | |
 | Neave (Sir Digby i.e. Richard Digby), sir Richard Digby Neave (3rd bart.) - 1852 - 320 pages
...Filled with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; ' And now they change, a paler shadow strews A mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies, like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 820 pages
...Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters : all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With... | |
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rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strew« Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, 
