| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1848 - 628 pages
...between Genoa and Marseilles, were those beginning ' Slow sinks, more lovely 'ere his race be run, Behind Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not as in northern...But one unclouded blaze of living light, O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave that trembles as it glows,' &c. " They... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...stiffen'd limb, Refreshing earth — reviving all but him! — CANTO THE THIRD, Come vedi— ancor non Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along...hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscuiely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Abolitionists - 1848 - 646 pages
...between Genoa and Marseilles, were those beginning ' Slow sinks, more lovely 'ere his race be run, Behind Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded Haze of living light, O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave that trembles... | |
| Edwin Lee - Europe - 1848 - 408 pages
...From this hill Claude Lorraine was in the habit of watching the sinking sun make his " golden set," " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light," and noting the varied tints produced in " the bright tract of his fiery car," which few besides himself... | |
| Electronic journals - 1872 - 676 pages
...grief beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild." Byron. " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along...setting sun, Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, Bat one unclouded blaze of living light." Shellty. " daisies and delicate bells, As fair as the fabulous... | |
| Mrs. Stirling - 1849 - 320 pages
...almost too dazzling to the eyes. It seemed as if Summer had been suddenly born into the world— " flat as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." Fanny was early in her garden, weeding and admiring it. Her father was busy with his usual forenoon... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...place the equally correct and still more thrilling lines of our own poet. " Slow sinks, more beauteous ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun, Not as in northern clime obscurely bright, , But one unclouded blaze of living light ; O'er the hushed deep the yellow... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...place the equally correct and still more thrilling lines of our own poet. " Slow sinks, more beauteous ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun, Not as in northern clime obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light; O'er the hushed deep the yellow beams... | |
| Bayard Taylor - Crete (Greece) - 1850 - 462 pages
...the Saronic Gulf. Here was written the often quoted description of a Grecian sunset, commencing : " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun — " and every feature of the picture is correct. In the south, you see Egina, crowned by the Panhellenic... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - Europe - 1852 - 462 pages
...of many-colored light, Of golden towers and phantoms fair." XIX. dDraittal ITrart mtfr €lmit Mm. " Slow sinks more lovely ere his race be run, Along...bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." Byron. A FTEK leaving the Dardanelles, we stopped again at Smyrna, -£L where I took a Turkish bath,... | |
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