Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful as thine ; The eagle's vision cannot take it in : The lightning's wing, too weak to sweep its space, Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within... The Quarterly Review - Seite 366herausgegeben von - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1844 - 634 Seiten
...beneath my window, pleasant Sea, I long not to o'erlook earth's fairest glades, And green savannahs — Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful...music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. Nor on the stage Of rural landscape are there lights and shades Of more harmonious dance and play than... | |
| 1831 - 626 Seiten
...as thine ; The eagle's vision cannot take it in. . Tin' lightning's wing too weak to sweep its spare Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird. It is...music of the spheres, . Can see themselves at once — . Nor on the stage Of rural landscape are there lights and shades Of more harmonious dance and... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 328 Seiten
...beneath my windows, pleasant Sea, I long not to o'erlook earth's fairest glades And green savannahs — Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful...music of the spheres, 'Can see themselves at once. Nor on the stage Of rural landscape are there lights and shades Of more harmonious dance and play than... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 Seiten
...marriages are happy is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in- making cages. SWIFT. EARTH has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful...music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. CAMPBELL. THE restless inanity of minds, which can neither use, retain, nor even receive any of the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 360 Seiten
...eagle's vision cannot take it in : The lightning's wing, too weak to sweep its space, Sinks half- way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of...music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. Nor on the stage Of rural landscape are there lights and shades Of more harmonious dance and play than... | |
| 1836 - 564 Seiten
...Lines on the View from St. Leonard's' we have a fresh proof that a good subject can never grow old. ' Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful...poet,' we believe, who, in connexion with the beauty and sublimity of the sea, has ventured to allude to the steam-vessel. He has thrown over it the protection... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 Seiten
...beneath my windows, pleasant Sea, I long not to o'erlook earth's fairest glades And green savannahs — Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful...music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. Nor on the stage Of rural landscape are there lights and shades Of more harmonious dance and play than... | |
| 1840 - 316 Seiten
...beautiful as thine ; The eagle's vision cannot take it in ; The lightning's wing.tooweak tosweepits space. Sinks halfway o'er it, like a wearied bird...music of the spheres. Can see themselves at once." The south wind, that sighs so solemnly through the tops of the casaurinas, lashes the distant waters... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1840 - 376 Seiten
...Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful as thine ; The eagle's vision cannot take it in : Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is...music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. Nor on the stage Of rural landscape are there lights and shades Of more harmonious dance and play than... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 332 Seiten
...weak to sweep iu apace. Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird. rt is the mirror of the itars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament,...music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. Nor on the stape Of rural landscape are there lights and shades Of more harmonious dance and play than... | |
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