 | Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 342 pages
...— " Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Garth has the same idea in the following couplet : — " At distance prospects please us, but when... | |
 | John William Clayton - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1857 - 192 pages
..." 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 all that sort of thing. After having passed over the bridge that crosses the Golden Horn and joins... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smilmg 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,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...sky ? "Why do those cliffs j>( shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azu*e hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to suisey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1819 - 240 pages
...coarse way— The present 's still a cloudy day." Is not this the original of the far-famed— M 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ?" To return once more to the sea. Let any 37 one look on the long wall of Malamocco, which curbs the... | |
 | Ub Narasinga Rao - Reference - 1988 - 96 pages
...Thy thumb is under my belt . . . . . . . . 36 Time and tide tarry (or wait) for no man . . . . 1 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue . . . . . . . . 33 'Tis easy to fall into trap, but hard to get out again . . 15 'Tis in vain to kick... | |
 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 414 pages
...Campbell, The Pleasures Of Hope, 1799, Part 1, 1. 7. In the first edition the relevant couplet reads, "Tis Distance lends enchantment to the view, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue." See Thomas Campbell. The Pleasures Of Hope; In TwoParts. With Other Poems. Edinburgh: Printed For Mundell... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...respect. ALDO LEOPOLD, (1886-1948) US forester. A Sand Country Almanac, foreword (1949). Landscapes 1 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. THOMAS CAMPBELL, (1777-1844) Scottish poet. "The Pleasures of Hope," pt. 1, 1. 7-8 (1799). Repr. in... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 392 pages
...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." 11. Milton (1608-1674), Paradise Lost (1667), 1.293-94. 12. Tennyson, In Memoriam (1850), 54.8. 13.... | |
 | Michael Gorman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 220 pages
...searching. / will not try to make silk reference work out of a sow's free-text search. Distant Learning 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain in its azure haze. — Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope One of the most seductive prospects in higher education... | |
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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. 
