 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 1911816Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...Sept. 3, 1803. Earth has not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could pass hy A sight so touching in its majesty ; This city now...beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or bill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will ! Dear God... | |
 | English essays - 1835 - 742 pages
...Jt'estmiaster Bridge. Earth has not anything to shew more fair : Dull would he be the soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ; This city now...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ; The river glideth at his... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1835 - 746 pages
...Westminster Bridge. Earth has not anything to shew more fair ; Dull would he be the soul who could- pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ; This city now...bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...the sonnet: " Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glidcth at his own sweet will: Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 pages
...truthfulness of this great master's poetry more deeply than I did at the hour, of which I am now writing ; " Silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky ! All bright and glittering in the smokeless air ;"— and then, when I came to the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, — All bright and glittering in the smokeless nir. Never did sun more beautifully... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1838 - 508 pages
...to show mon* fair: Dull would lie In« of s»iu! who emiM рак.« by A light so touching in it-i majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear...morning ; silent, bare. Ships, towers, domes, theatres, anil temple«, lie Opon unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : The city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto^the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more... | |
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