 | Richard Savage - 1761 - 226 lehte
...filence, and a dread repofe : Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, ar,d 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 flay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1764 - 302 lehte
...filenceand a dead repofe; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcen-e, 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. Mr. Warton celebrates thefe lines greatly : " The figurative expreffions (fays he-} throws, and breathes,... | |
 | Frances Brooke - 1764 - 326 lehte
...and a dread repofe ; Her gloomy preftnce faddenS all tbefcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the -woods. To Mrs. SINGLETON. MADAM, For i. AS the incomparable authors of the Speftators did not think it beneath... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 lehte
...filence, and a dread repofe; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry fiow'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 mufl I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 lehte
...and a dread repofe : " Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, *^ 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." \ It is candidly and juftly obferved by the effayift fo often mentioned, that the figurative expreifions,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 lehte
...and a dread repofe : " Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, " Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry " green, " Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, " And breathes a broivner horror on the " woods." It is candidly and juftly obferved by the eflayift. fo often mentioned,... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 lehte
...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 falling 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,... | |
 | 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
...dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence laddens 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. 178 Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,... | |
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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... 
