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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 unnumbered gild... "
American Education: Its Principles and Elements : Dedicated to the Teachers ... - Page 145
by Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 330 pages
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Élémens de la langue anglaise: ou Méthode pratique pour apprendre facilement ...

Louis-Pierre Siret - English language - 1815 - 198 pages
...(••-• A beautiful night-piece (a). i When the Moon , refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...o'ercasts the solemn scene; •'•*-; Around her throue the vivid planets roll , And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole , O'er the dark trees a...
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The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 208 pages
...Homer. The last may as well be quoted :— As when the moon— refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heav'n's clear azure — spreads her sacred light, When not...disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud— o'ercasts tin; solemn scene; Around her throne — the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd — gild the...
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The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected ...

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...milliner's door. BATH GUIDE. A COMPARISON. AS when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er Heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...gild the glowing pole. O'er the dark trees a yellower yerdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 pages
...scene ; not a Around her silver throne the planets glow, And stars unnumber'd trembling beams bestow : Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; Clear gleams of light o'er the dark trees are seen, o'er the dark trees a yellow O'er the dark trees...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 30

England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...Ami beaming fires illumin'd all the ground, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbcr'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
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The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various ..., Volume 1

Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...where that of Homer begins : As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night O'er heav'n's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...just and happy image of a moonlight sky : while it is difficult to determine whether iu the lines, "Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole," the sense, or the diction be the more absurd. My answer was ; that tho' I had derived peculiar advantages...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 24

England - 1828 - 964 pages
...Ambrosiame returns, and she is made again to feel the exquisite beauty of those lines of Homer and Pope— " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night* O'er Heaven's clear azure tneds her sacred light 1* We must not, however, be too severe on the world, whose chief fault, after...
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Poetry for Children: Consisting of Short Pieces to be Committed to Memory

Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...his harmless marmot. ORIGINAL, MOONLIGHT WHEN the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a...scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And Btars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with...
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The Englishman's fire-side

492 pages
...when the nioon, refulgent lamp of night, t , O'er Heav IT'S clear azure sheds her sacred light, Where not. a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, i' ,.\\'\, ji< ] o Tin // Pi. .• : . t • . Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars...
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