 Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low, the woods Bow their hoar head ; and, ere the languid Sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face...  The Seasons ... - Page 215by James Thomson - 1802 - 262 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...Christopher North (Professor Wilson), in his Winter Rhapsody " The cherish'd fields Put on their tender robe of purest white, 'Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current." Nothing can be more vivid. There are passages, nowevei, in which Thomson, striving to be pathetic,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...the hushed air the whitening shower descends, At first thin-wavering, till at last the flakes Kail ailor, the mill of the fuller, or even the loom of the weaver, let u cherished fields Put on their winter robe of purest white : 'Tis brightness all, save where the new... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 pages
...with the gather'd storm. Through the hush'd air the whitening shower descends, At first thin wavering, till at last the flakes Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow." The time of service of the provincials had nearly expired, and Montgomery saw that, without a bold effort,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...the hush'd air the whitening shower descends, At first thin-wavering ; till at last the flakes 230 Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day With...continual flow. The cherish'd fields Put on their winter robe of purest white. 'Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current.... | |
 | William Ewart - 1849 - 94 pages
...the gathering storm. Through the hushed air the whitening shower descends, At first thin wavering, till at last the flakes Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow. The cherished fields Put on their winter robe of purest white ; 'Tis whiteness all, save where the new... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...wide, and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow. The cherished fields Put on their winter robe of purest white. 'Tis brightness all ; save where...new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low the woods How their hoar head ; and, ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 524 pages
...the hush'd air the whitening shower descends, At first thin wavering ; till at last the flakes 230 Fall broad and wide and fast, dimming the day With...continual flow. The cherish'd fields Put on their winter robe of purest white. 'Tis brightness all; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...I.acrtt. ii. V f " Through the hush'd air the whitening shower descends, At first i!i;n wavering , till at last the flakes Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day With a ruutinual now. The cherish'd fields Put on their winter rube of purest white : 'Tis brightness ail... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...the gathered storm. Through the hushed air the whitening shower descends. At first thin wavering ; till at last the flakes Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow. The cherished fields Put on their winter robe of purest white. 'Tis brightness all ; save where the new... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...[A Winter Landtcape.'] rough the hushed air the whitening shower descendu, At first thin-wavering, till at last the flakes Fall broad and wide, and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow. The cherished fields Put on their winter robe of purest white : 'Tie brightness all, save where the new... | |
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