 Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 439by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
 | James Johnson - 1807 - 430 pages
...with the sky ? Why do those cliiis of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the ocean smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue!" As this important settlement is often touched at by our ships on their way to and from India, I shall... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...Ey'd through hope's deluding glass ; N 2 As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, "Which, to those who journey near, Barren, brown,...same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what I see: Content me with an humble shade, My passions... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 400 pages
...through hope's deluding glass ; , '. ' As yon summits soft and fair, ?lad in colours of the air, ,. Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and...same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what I see ! , Content me with an humble shade, My passions... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...face, Ey'd through hope's deluding glass : As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and...same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what I see : Content me with an humble shade, My passions... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...future's face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colors of the air, stic characters I see, Wrought in each flower, inscrib'd onev'rv trrr • B ln ELE tlje same coarse way ; The present 's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And never covet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...face, Ey'd through Hope's deluding glass ; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to those who journey near. Barren, brown, and...rough appear; Still we tread the same coarse way, The present 's still a cloudy day. О may I with myself agree, And never covet what I see ; Content me... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, hrown, and rough appear; Still we tread the same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And never covet i what I see; Content me with an humhle shade, My passions... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
...the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus, from afar,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...near, Barren, brown, and rough appear: Grass and flowers Quiet treads, On the meads and mountain-beads, Still we tread the same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day. O may I with myself agree, And never covet what I see! Content me with an humble shade, jly passion... | |
 | Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - 1812 - 648 pages
...Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear, More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?— • "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey, The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar,... | |
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