 | Edward Jesse - 1844 - 456 ページ
...forget at such a moment, Pope's beautiful description of this luminary in his translation of Homer. 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... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 694 ページ
...to be surpassed for bled. In Chapm beauty and fidelity. Yet many prefer the elaborate paraphrase of 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... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 ページ
...the cold north wind Amid his native seas, So that no withering blight come down Upon our olive trees. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, Where not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 724 ページ
...ii hardly to be surpassed for beauty and fidelity. Yet many prefer the elaborate paraphrase of POPE. 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 clund o'ercasts the... | |
 | Philip Tocque - 1846 - 418 ページ
...poets have given beautiful descriptions of the appearance of moonlight, one of which is the following : "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... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 ページ
...NUMBEH OF THE THOJAN FIHES. Thus the brave Trojans and their leagued bands Struck on the shield of Ajax. 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 ページ
...first, the famous description of the " refulgent lamp of night " which Pope has adapted from Homer : — 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... | |
 | 1847 - 110 ページ
...stands peerless. " The troops eiultingsat in order round, And beaming fires illumiu'd all the ground. 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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 ページ
...stands peerless. " The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumin'd all the ground. 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 ページ
...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... | |
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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... 
