 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...' Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear, More sweet than all the landscapes shining nf.ar. Tis distance lends enchantment TO the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ', Thus with delight we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasurd way Thus from afar,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...passage suggested the well known lines near the beginning of Campbell's " Pleasures of Hope:" — " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view. And robes the mountain in its azure hue." As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which, to those who journey near, Barren,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 pages
...norx. Why do those cliffs of shadow)' tint appear. More sweet than all the lamlirapcs shining near! Tic distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its n?4ire hue ! Thus with delight we tin?(*r to survey The pronrs'd joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1846 - 256 pages
...? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ! 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar each... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar,... | |
 | John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 184 pages
...mirage that is formed on the summer horizon, which, as you near it, dissolves and melts away. " 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." The Tower, including the several buildings, extends over a surface of twelve acres. The large square... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar,... | |
 | Hamilton Lanphere Smith - 1848 - 336 pages
..." Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint, appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? *Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Campbell. IN the present chapter we shall describe and explain the general optical appearance of the... | |
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - 1848 - 550 pages
...with Wirt, "Objects loom large at a distance ; " or, in more poetical language, with Campbell, " 'Tia distance lends enchantment to the view. And robes the mountain in its azure hue," for, at a social party at L.'s I met many literary persons whom I had long known through their writings,... | |
 | 1849 - 314 pages
...attracts and fascinates us far more than any part of the landscape which is nearer to us. Why ? " 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." All the asperities of that remote and elevated prospect, are lost sight of in the intervening medium... | |
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Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. 
