 | Hamilton Lanphere Smith - 1848 - 336 ページ
...81.86 CHAPTER V. , . Optical Phenomena. " Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint, appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? *Tis distance lends...the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Campbell. IN the present chapter we shall describe and explain the general optical appearance of the... | |
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - 1848 - 550 ページ
...with Wirt, "Objects loom large at a distance ; " or, in more poetical language, with Campbell, " 'Tia distance lends enchantment to the view. And robes the mountain in its azure hue," for, at a social party at L.'s I met many literary persons whom I had long known through their writings,... | |
 | 1849 - 330 ページ
...appear More sweet than all the landscape shining near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the Tiew, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with...survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thns from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ; And every... | |
 | William Beattie - 1849 - 520 ページ
...sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs, of shadowy tint, appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? Tis distance lends...the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." On the 31st of May, a month after the publication of his poem, Campbell writes thus to Mr. James Thomson... | |
 | 1849 - 314 ページ
...attracts and fascinates us far more than any part of the landscape which is nearer to us. Why ? " 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." All the asperities of that remote and elevated prospect, are lost sight of in the intervening medium... | |
 | 1849 - 544 ページ
...reverent and becoming way. Distance often lends boldness to the tongue, just as the poet Campbell says it Lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. There are few great men who haven'ta dozen people, at least, who " keep them right," as they call it.... | |
 | 1850 - 178 ページ
...sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape shining near ? "Us distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. (Applause.) The reign of Queen Elizabeth is commonly taken as the golden age of this country — the... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1851 - 400 ページ
...Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those clitfs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? 'Tis distance lends...survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way j Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seerns than all the past have been, And... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1851 - 202 ページ
...? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes...joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ; And every form, that fancy can... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 ページ
...landscape smiling near ? 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain with its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey...joys of life's unmeasured way : Thus, from afar, each dim discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ; And every form that fancy can... | |
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Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? — 'Tis distance lends... 
