 | John Wilson - 1844 - 656 sivua
...they rivalled, I may say far surpassed, Byron's description of the sun setting along Morea's height: ' Not as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light,' • The rarefaction of the atmosphere, which gave rise to a new and most beautiful aspect of the heavens;... | |
 | 1860 - 620 sivua
...his progress in the cloudy atmosphere of Europe, and the whole horizon glows with ruddy lustre ; " Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." At DO other moment does the verdure of th« mountain woods appear so vivid ; each spray dripping with... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 sivua
...and Mycenae - 4 Argos to Tripolizza - 9 Tripolizza to Mistra - 12 M. Mil. О 11 О О 11 2O О О " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along...living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throw«, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old jEgina's rock, and Idra's isle, The... | |
 | 1845 - 656 sivua
...the reproach of foreigners ; but deeply, beautifully blue, with a tropical sun, as Byron says — " Not, as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light" — entirely superseding stoves and hot-beds, and all our expensive apparatus for the production of... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - 1845 - 336 sivua
...While on the top of Alcathea, it was my good fortune to enjoy the scene so truly described by Byron : " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills, the setting son ; Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1845 - 438 sivua
...afterwards poured the light of his genius over those lands of the sun, where his descending orb sets — " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." Scotland, my lord, may well be proud of having given birth to, or awakened the genius of such men ;... | |
 | William Dansey - 1845 - 178 sivua
...in putting into his prose the second line of Byron's splendid description of a sunset at Athens, " Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light," you will have the leaves for nothing." Indeed the whole work bears evident marks of a diligent perusal... | |
 | Andrew Alexander Bonar, Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1845 - 596 sivua
...There was no peculiar beauty in the sunset — only the sunliimself appeared remarkably brilliant, " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of 11 ring light." The swallows kept flying about the vessel till darkness came on ; and then the stars... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 sivua
...illustrious men, in his undying poetry. " Slew sinks, more lovely ore his nee be run, Along Morca's bills the setting sun ; Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one undauded blaze of livmg light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave,... | |
 | 1846 - 730 sivua
...a brain still dizzy from the whirl of fashionable dissipation : " Slow sinks, more lovely e'er its race be run, Along Morea's hills, the setting sun...bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." This is description ! This is Poetry ! Here we have, as it were, by a few masterly strokes of the pencil,... | |
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SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, ^ Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles... 
