 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...rises," is trite and common; hut it hecomes a magnificent image when expressed, as Thompson has dona : But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. 2. To say, that " All men are suhject alike to death," presenfs ordy a vulgar idea; hut it rises and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 272 pages
...common and trite ; but it becomes a magnificent image, as expressed by Thompson : But yonder eomes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east —...confusion ; the principal idea, together with its accessory, which gives it the figurative appearance. When, for example, instead of "youth," we say,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...Sudden the tempest scowls, the surges roar, Blot his fair day, and plunge him in the deep. Sunrise. But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. The less'ning cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow, lllum'd with fluid gold, his near... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 320 pages
...the same effect ea language, that -a rich and splendid apparel has on a person of rank and dignity. In prose •compositions, assistance of this kind...but it becomes a magnificent image, as expressed by Thorny son : But yonder comes tbe powerful king of -day; Rejoicing in Ihe-easl. Figures furnish the... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
...is a common and tame expression, but it becomes a magnificent image, when thus expressed by the poet Thomson : " But yonder comes the powerful king of day Rejoicing in the east." Thirdly, Figures afford the pleasure of enjoying two objects presented together to the view, without... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...muse And every blooming pleasure, wait without, To bless the wildly devious morning walk ? SUN RISING. Thomson. BUT, yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumin'd with fluid gold, his near... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...when every Muse And every blooming pleasure wait without, To bless die wildly-devious morning walk? But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow> Illumed with fluid gold, his near... | |
 | Compendium - 1822 - 342 pages
...the upper figure of 12 stands for noon, the lower tor midnight. 5. — ON LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. " But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east ; the lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow, lllum'd with fluid gold, his near... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...Budden the tempest scowls, the surges roar, Blot his fair day and plunge him in the deep. Sunrise. But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. The less'ning cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow, Illum'd with fluid gold, his near... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...is trite and common ; but it becomes a magnificent image when expressed as Mr. Thomson has done : " But yonder comes the powerful king of day^ Rejoicing in the east."— — To say, that ' all men are subject alike 'to death,' presents only A vulgar idea ; but it rises... | |
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But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad. 
