 | John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 550 pages
...hexameter is one, he could have produced the solemnizing effect of the opening stanza of the same poem ? " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven ; In full-orb'd glory yonder Moon divine... | |
 | 1867 - 678 pages
...compensating for the lack of Milton's stately grandeur. Take, for example, the opening stanza : — " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor speck, nor stain Breaks the serene of Heaven. In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...sunbeams fall, For God, who loveth all his works, has left his hope with all. 9. NIGHT. — Souihey. How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : ADVANCE. 179 In full-orbed glory yonder... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world. Ib. Manfred, ill. 4 How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain. Breaks the serene of Heaven : In full-orb'd glory, yonder moon divine... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...light, Do summon us to part, and bid good night. Of a fine moonlight night, Southey has said : — How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...Now had night measured, with her shadowy cone, Half-way up hill this vast sublunar vault. — MILTON. How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist, no little cloud Breaks the serene of heaven. In full-orbed glory the majestic moon Rolls through the... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...lost, But hath a part of being, and a sense Of that which is of all Creator and Defence." — Byron. "How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist, obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1894 - 392 pages
...John, v., I : Shahespear. or irregular or broken, as in Goethe's Faust and Southey's TJialaba; eg: How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud nor speck nor stain Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 pages
...of light, He might happen to take thee for one, my dear. — THOMAS MOORE. 20. NIGHT IN THE DESERT. How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 614 pages
...Sleep ! the friend of woe ; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so. (Canto XV.) FROM THALABA. How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; • No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine... | |
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How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert... 
