 Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day...  The Gentleman's Magazine - עמוד 3001818תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Sir Edward Belcher - 1848 - 608 דפים
...opaque, leaden grey. One poet has said, " parting day Dies like the Dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone and all is grey." There are many other fish that change colour several times before they die ; I have seen species of... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1848 - 692 דפים
...crimson, and purple, as the magnificent sunset sent the scene through all its dolphin changes, — " The last still loveliest, till 'tis gone, And all is grey." The fireplace of this room is fine, and the groups of small pillars on each side of it very beautiful.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 240 דפים
...shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till 't is gone — and all is gray." Combined with the beauty of this scene, you have, in returning from... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 דפים
...shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone, and all ii gray. ROME. OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to these,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 384 דפים
...observed. Byron tells us how "Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — tis gone, and all is gray." Falconer, in anticipating, reversed the simile. The huge animal, struck by the " unerring barb... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1851 - 270 דפים
...fire. Meanwhile, the parting day, " Dies like the dolphin, which each pang imbues With a new color, as it gasps away ; The last still loveliest, till 'tis gone, and all is gray.7* And this glowing scenery of light was gradually effaced like the illusions of life. This celestial... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 דפים
...mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all La gray. LESSON LXXXIV. Approach of Age. CBABBE. Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 דפים
...shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 't is gone — and all is gray. -" XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1852 - 394 דפים
...poet must have observed. Byron tells us how " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone, and all is grey." Falconer, in anticipating, reversed the simile. The huge animal. stickleback of our ponds and ditches... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 458 דפים
...shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still...loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is grey." Childe Harold. THE charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been sung since the days of Homer. That the Mediterranean,... | |
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