...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 te say ill-natured things, (Horace Walpole among them,)...

...eighteen degrees below the horizon. The evening twilight is thus beautifully represented by Mason :— " While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...Meek twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners grey." The MOON is full on the 2d, at thirty-five minutes before one in the morning : she rises on...

...this figure ; especially in that beautiful couplet, which his friend Gray pronounced superla<fw.*— " While through the west, where sinks the crimson Day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banner grey." The picture glows with the colours of the Venetian pencil ; we can almost fancy that...