 | William Joseph Battersby - 1833 - 388 lehte
...gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green, Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods And breathes a browner horror on the woods." POPS. In a land of absentees, the poor and the aged, the deeplate and the lonely may well exclaim in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 lehte
...her throws 165 A death-like silence and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens...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, can break the lasting chain... | |
 | 1835 - 932 lehte
...round her throws A deathlike silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods." These lines have been happily imitated by Dr. Darwin in hisowu manner: that is, with a view solely... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 lehte
...a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, 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. 170 142. domes] See p. 175, l. 65n. 152 f. The superscription of Eloisa's first letter begins 'To her Lord,... | |
 | 1892 - 1056 lehte
...picture. This is the art of Mrs. Lynn Linton. Like melancholy, Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods And adds a browner horror to the woods. It is as old as human nature, this proneness to denigration : not... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 518 lehte
...Melancholy fits, and round her throws A death-like filence, and a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every...the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the wood?." The The river, expanding into a vaft bay, feems nearly furrounded by mountains, that... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 lehte
...and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, 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. The gloomy allusions to 'Melancholy', 'silence', 'twilight' and 'sadness' do not merely create atmosphere,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 lehte
...around her convent: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, 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. (Eloisa to Abelard, lines 167-70) Eloisa's inner activity distorts the church service, even as the... | |
 | Frances Brooke - 1985 - 540 lehte
...Abelard," 1717, 11. 169-70; Eloísa is describing a scene near her convent where "Black Melancholy" now "Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, / And breathes a browner horror on the woods." See The Twickenham Edition. Vol. 2, p. 333. 305.12-13 Si. Joseph, the patron of Canada} St. Joseph... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 1988 - 338 lehte
...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 falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. One picture replaces another. The pretty pastoral images of the first six Unes, innocently dreamy,... | |
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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 every flower, and darkens... 
