 | William Cowper - 1835
...501. We add one more specimen, where the beauty of the imagery demands the exercise of poetic talent. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud overcasts the solemn... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836
...the moonlight. As when in stillness of the silent night. As when the moon in all her lustre bright. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her silver light ; pure spreads sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stood, And o'er its... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 300 ページ
...: the Moonlight Scene, in the eighth hook, I here give as a specimen of Pope's translation : — " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! " O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light j " When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, " And not a cloud o'ercasts... | |
 | 1815
...glitters, and the shepherd's heart is cheer'd. — Cowper. How has Pope rendered this description ? As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | 1838
...full moon burst out in a flood of glory, realising Homer's noble description of an Asiatic night — " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light — When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts... | |
 | 1838
...full moon burst out in a flood of glory, realising Homer's noble description of an Asiatic night — " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, . < O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light — When not a breath disturhs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839
...the moonlight. As when in stillness of the silent night. As when the moon in all her lustre bright. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her silver light j As still in air the trembling lustre stood, And o'er its golden border shoots... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 716 ページ
...eyes. The Indian Emperor, And here the moonlight scene in Homer as rendered by Pope and by Cowper :— As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 419 ページ
...(as the moon does to us) revolve from east to west, the corresponding progress of the moon in her * " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - 1843 - 487 ページ
...these lines of Homer can apply with greater exactness than to a West Indian summer's night :-— " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light : When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
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As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild... 
