 | E. Augusta King - 1896 - 462 pages
...turned off and followed the bank of a small canal to the edge of the famous pine-forest of Ravenna, ' Rooted where once the Adrian wave flow'd o'er To where the last Caesarean fortress stood.' Here the ground is firm and sandy, carpeted beneath the tall pine-trees with juniper and pyracanthus,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1897 - 744 pages
...are formed ? ' " The Fineta inspired also these beautiful lines in the 3rd canto of Don Juan : — Sweet hour of twilight !— in the solitude Of the pine forest and the silent shore Which bounds Ilavmna's immemorial wood, Kocted where once the Adrian wave flow'd o'er, To where the last... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 350 pages
...real than living man, Nurslings of immortality. GEORGE GORDON BYRON. TWILIGHT. [From " Don Juan."] SWEET hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flowed o'er, To where the last... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 pages
...Bouhours; English critics promulgated it: Dennis, Langbaine, Rymer, Gildon, and others now little * Sweet hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flowed o'er, To where the last... | |
 | 1899 - 816 pages
...not a breath crept through the rosy air, 815 And yet the forest leaves seem stirr'd with prayer. CV. Sweet hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, 835 Rooted where once the Adrian wave flow'd o'er, To where the last... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 pages
...real than living man, Nurslings of immortality. GEORGE GORDON BYRON. TWILIGHT. [From " Don Juan."] SWEET hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flowed o'er, To where the last... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 550 pages
...Boccaccio's novel, and Dryden's fable of Honoria, etc., etc. ; ' and I see my Dama every day at I. " Sweet hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore 1819.] WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. 321 the proper (and improper) hours; but I feel seriously uneasy about... | |
 | John Nichol - 1902 - 700 pages
...and riding or driving daily in the scenery reproduced in the third canto of Don Juan : — Sweet hoar of twilight ! in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood. On Theresa's recovery, in dread of a possible separation he proposed... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1903 - 598 pages
...he had selected from the ' Decameron.' Ever- one is familiar with Byron's allusion to this story: " Sweet hour of twilight ! — In the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flowed o'er, To where the last... | |
 | Henry Neville Maugham - 1903 - 484 pages
...years. There he used to ride in the Pineta (now in great part burnt down), composing his tragedies "in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's wood." Thenceforward Lord Byron becomes Italianised in habit, if not in ideas. He... | |
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Sweet hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood... 
