 But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens...  Miscellaneous Poems and Translations - Page 166redigeeritud poolt - 1722 - 288 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 lehte
...a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. The figurative expreffions, throws, and breathes, and browner horror, are, I verily believe, fome of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 lehte
...the twilight groves and dufey caves, Long-founding ifles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy fits, and round her throws A death-like filence, and...lover can obey ! Death, only death, can break the lafting chain ; And here, e'en then, fhall my cold duft remain ; Here all its frailties, all its flames... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 lehte
...repofe; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry fiow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, DeepejBj Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes...browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever mufl I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can break the lafting chain... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 lehte
...the twilight groves and dufky caves, " Long-founding ifles,and intermingled graves, "Black MELANCHOLY fits, and round her " throws " A death-like filence,...floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the " woods." \ It is candidly and juftly obferved by the effayift fo often mentioned, that the figurative expreifions,... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 lehte
...death-like silence, and a dread repose; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flon-'r, and darkens ev'ry green,. Deepens the murmur of the...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 lehte
...A death-like filence, and a dread repofe : Her gloomy prefence faddens all the Icene, Shades cv'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur...horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever muft I ilay ; Sad proof-how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can break the lafting chain ; And here... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1778 - 508 lehte
...dread repofe : Her gloomy prefence faddens all the ¡cene ¡ Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horrour on the woods.' EloiTa to Abclard, v. 154. < The aflive imagination of the fufceptible reader,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 400 lehte
...a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence iaddens all the fcene, Shades every, flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
 | Petrus Abaelardus - 1782 - 162 lehte
...Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes-a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever muft I Hay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can break the laftirtg chain ; And here,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 lehte
...the twilight groves and dufky.caves, Long-founding ailes, and intermingled graves,. Black Melancholy fits, and round her throws A death-like filence, and...And breathes a browner horror on the woods. . Yet Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can... | |
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