| Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 páginas
...had melted into shade and softness. Never were more beautifully exemplified those charming lines, " While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray." He now began to ascend the eminence on which Castle Mowbray was situated, and while he revolved all... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 páginas
...friend from any imputation of vanity, whatever becomes of myself, I shall here insert the passage. While through the west, where sinks the crimson Day,...Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray. XXIII. MR. GRAY TO DR. WHARTOK. June 14, 1736. THOUGH I allow abundance for your kindness and partiality... | |
| William Mason - 1830 - 166 páginas
...this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray? II. Say, from Affliction's various source Do none but turbid waters flow ? And cannot Fancy clear their... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 páginas
...hollow gust of wind, — As drops this little weeping rill, Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray ?* In the same richly poetic vein are the following lines from Collins's Ode to Evening : — Or if... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1835 - 330 páginas
...any imputation of vanity, whatever becomes of myself, I shall here insert the passage : While thro' the west, where sinks the crimson Day, Meek twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray. Mason. Pray don't suspect me of any such suspicions as you mention. I would hardly believe you were... | |
| 740 páginas
...longer than I remember his " English Garden" — longer than I remember his best couplet of verse : " While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek twilight slowly tail*, and waves her banners gray." It was alleged, indeed, by those who loved to say ill-natured things,... | |
| 1867 - 738 páginas
...longer than I remember his " English Garden" — longer than I remember his best couplet of verse : " While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray." It was alleged, indeed, by those who loved to say ill-natured things, (Horace Walpole among them,)... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - 344 páginas
...hollow gust of wind ? As drops this little weeping rill, Soft trickling down the moss-grown hill ? While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray. The notes that are at intervals heard from animals and birds are equally pleasing to the soul. " The... | |
| William Goodman - 1844 - 378 páginas
...were equally favoured with an answer. Q. " Prithee statue, tell me how I can be as fair as thou 1" A. " The means I speedily will name, I got white wash'd...the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." These soul-cheering warblers arrive every Spring from the banks of the Nile, to carry on their connubial... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...'twere holy ground. Gray quotes the following lines in one of Mason's odes as ' superlative :' — e shifted his trumpet,! an^ Оп1у f°°k snuff....GEORGE SMOLLETT. Many who are familiar with Smollet [Prom Caraclaciu.] Mona on Snowdon calls : Hear, thriii king of mountains, hear ; Hark, she speaks... | |
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