 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...  Translations and imitations - Page 30by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 lehte
...round her throws A deathlike silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens...murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horrour on the woods. MONASTIC ENTHUSIASM. HOW happy is the blameless vestal's lot ; The world forgetting,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 758 lehte
...the fweets the blolloms yield, Then a lew murmur runs along the field. Pope. Dlack Melancholy fite, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. i. A complaint half fupprefled ; a complaint not openlyi uttered. — Some difcontents there... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 800 lehte
...gloomy prefence facldene all the fcenej Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens erf^ green, Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. (i.) DEEPING, a town of England, in Lincolnihire, feated on the river Wealand, in a fenny ground... | |
 | 1816 - 816 lehte
...prefence faddcns all tlie fccne, Shades ev'ry (low'r, and darkens cv'iy green, Jlc'ffens the mtinniirs of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. (i.) DEEPING, a town of England, in Lincolnlliirc, fcatcd on the river Wealand, in a fenny ground... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bennett - 1817 - 174 lehte
...us throws " A death-like silence and a dread repose : " Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, " Shades ev'ry flow'r and darkens ev'ry green, " Deepens...the falling floods, *' And breathes a browner horror o'er the -woods." Leaning over the draw-bridge, and dejectedly gazing on the flood beneath, an idea... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - 1818 - 908 lehte
...death-like silence, and a dread repose. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods." On emerging from a fine beech wood, which closed this forest scene, we found ourselves, after a constant... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1818 - 642 lehte
...and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens every scene , Shades every flower and darkens every green; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods , And breathes a browner horror o' er the woods. While thus employed on the summit, we heard the bell tolling below for afternoon service.... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1818 - 694 lehte
...dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens every scene , Shades every flower and darkens every green j Deepens the murmur of the falling floods , And breathes a browner horror o' er the woods. While thus employed on the summit, we heard the bell tolling below for afternoon service.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 826 lehte
...and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every ommend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron horrour on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death,... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 614 lehte
...death-like silence, and a dread repose. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods." On emerging from a fine beech wood, which closed this forest scene, we found ourselves, after a long... | |
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