| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 lehte
...broadens by degrees, Just o'er the verge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train, In all their pomp attend his setting throne. Air, earth, and ocean smile immense. And now, And if his weary chariot sought the bowers Of Amphitrite, and her tendmg nymphs — So Grecian fable... | |
| James Thomson - 1880 - 548 lehte
...equal wide survey, And, ever musing on the common weal, S:ill labours glorious with some great design. Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees, Just o'er...immense. And now, As if his weary chariot sought the bowers Of Amphitrite and her tending nymphs, (So Grecian fable sung) he dips his orb ; Now half-immersed... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 lehte
...splendour, surrounds the earth from one end of it to the other. Rev. W. Gilpin, Sermoss, \. SUNSET. Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees, Just o'er...verge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train, In all their pomp attend his setting throne. Air, earth, and ocean smile immense.... | |
| John McGovern - 1880 - 762 lehte
...secondfiddlers should have praised Milton half their days, for without him they would have had no evening : 1. Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees, Just o'er...verge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train, In all their pomp attend his setting throne. 2. Among the crooked lanes, on... | |
| James Thomson - 1881 - 502 lehte
...shines 1615 SUMMER. And, ever musing on the common weal, Still labours glorious with some great design. Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees, Just o'er...verge of day. The shifting clouds, Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous-train, In all their pomp attend his setting throne. Air, earth, and ocean smile immense.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 lehte
...their infant train. Check their own appetites, and give them all. Summer Evening. Low walks the ran. and broadens by degrees, Just o'er the verge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled guy, a richly gorgeous train, In all their ix>mp attend nis setting throne. Air, earth, and ocean smile... | |
| James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 lehte
...Hymn in Paradise Lost. It is seldom that we read anything finer than Thomson's description of sunset: Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees, Just o'er...immense. And now, As if his weary chariot sought the bowers Of Amphitrite aud her tending nymphs, (So Grecian fable sung,) he dips his orb; Now half-immers'd;... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 lehte
...by degrees, Just o'er the verge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train, Air, earth, and ocean smile immense. And now, As if his weary chariot sought the bowers Of Amphitrite, and her tending nymphs — So Grecian fable sung — he dips his orb; Now half... | |
| Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 lehte
...peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies. John Wilson, Scotland, 1785-1854. 67. Sunset Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees, Just o'er...verge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train, In all their pomp attend his setting throne. Air, earth, and ocean smile immense.... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 lehte
...weal, Still labours glorious with some great design. Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees ; 1620 Just o'er the verge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train, In all their pomp attend his setting throne. Air^ earth, and ocean smile immense,... | |
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