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... American Illustrated Magazine - Page 2871882Full view - About this book
| Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...round her throws A death-like filence, and 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 exprefiionS,ft&romr, and breathe^ and browner... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...round her throws A death-like filence, and 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... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...caves, Long-sounding isles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws i65 A death-like 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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1778 - 508 pages
...her throws ' A death-like filence, and a 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...throws 165 A death-like filence, and a dread repofe; Her gloomy prefence lad•Jens 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, 170 Yet here for ever, ever muft I flay; Sad proof how well... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1794 - 446 pages
...throws " A death-like filence, and 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 tbe woods." POPE, Eloifa to Abelard, ver. 165. WHILE the foul expands,... | |
| Books and bookselling - 1795 - 488 pages
...round her throws A death-like filence, and a dread repofe. Her gloomy prefcnce faddens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; • Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods. РОГЕ. Half way between Boppart and Coblentz is the town... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1795 - 468 pages
...her throws " A death-like filence, and 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." POPE, Elitija to Aldard, ver. 165. WHILE the foul expands,... | |
| Ann Radcliffe - Europe - 1795 - 522 pages
...round her throws A deathlike filence, and a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of th'e falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods." The The river, expanding into a vaft. bay, feems nearly... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long sounding aisles, aud intermingled, graves, Black Black melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like...every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.'' Eloisa. We might here... | |
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