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
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1833 - 328 pages
...exclaim, ' 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.' And, if a moralist, he might add, 1 Thus with delight we linger to surrey The promis'd joys of life's... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 228 pages
...»a Savoy. Campbell accordingly is scientifically correct (a rare thing in poetry,) when he says, " Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." PLBASURES OF HOPE. That the air has considerable weight, is known to every body who has felt the wind... | |
 | 1845 - 778 pages
...face. Eyed through Hope's delusive glass : As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colors of the air, Which, to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and...same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day." In the same poem we have the following couplet : "And waft across the wave'a tumultuous roar The wolf's... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 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." I have some doubt, however, whether it is to mere distance we are to attribute this attraction which... | |
 | William Sawrey Gilpin - 1835 - 296 pages
...Eyed through Hope's deluding glass ; " As yon summits soft and fair, " Clad iii colours of the air, " Which to those who journey near, " Barren, brown,...same coarse way, " The present's still a cloudy day." * The middle distance will sometimes be within the influence of immediate improvement, particularly... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 pages
...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 promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar,... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1836 - 598 pages
...exclaim — "Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near t 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue, " And if a moralist, he may add : " Thus with delight we linger to survey, The promised joy» of lifers... | |
 | 1836 - 514 pages
...Why do those clifls of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near t— "Г is 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,... | |
 | Isaac William Stuart - 1836 - 234 pages
...invites him to short repose beneath its scented shades. In learning it is not distance but approach that "Lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Is it not intellectual feasting to read with understanding the classic writers in their native tongues,... | |
 | James Low - 1836 - 346 pages
...mtending planter should reflect with the poet* whose immortal verse harmonizes with our subject, that " 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, " And robes the mountain in a spicy hue." His hand having fairly grasped the ploughman's ribands, it is to be hoped that his mind... | |
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