 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 536 pages
...round her thrown A death-like silence and a dread repose; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green, Deepens...murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horrour on the woods." "This is the passage you meant, madam, is it not?" said Jamie, when he had read... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 816 pages
...prefence faddcns all tlie fccne, Shades ev'ry (low'r, and darkens cv'iy green, Jlc'ffens the mtinniirs of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. (i.) DEEPING, a town of England, in Lincolnlliirc, fcatcd on the river Wealand, in a fenny ground... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horrour on the woods. MONASTIC ENTHUSIASM. HOW happy is the blameless vestal's lot ; The world forgetting,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bennett - English poetry - 1817 - 174 pages
...dread repose : " Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, " Shades ev'ry flow'r and darkens ev'ry green, " Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, *' And breathes a browner horror o'er the -woods." Leaning over the draw-bridge, and dejectedly gazing on the flood beneath, an idea... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1818 - 642 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence , and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens every scene , Shades every flower and darkens every green; Deepens...the falling floods , And breathes a browner horror o' er the woods. While thus employed on the summit, we heard the bell tolling below for afternoon service.... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - Rhine River Valley - 1818 - 908 pages
...and a dread repose. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods." On emerging from a fine beech wood, which closed this forest scene, we found ourselves, after a constant... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1818 - 694 pages
...dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens every scene , Shades every flower and darkens every green j Deepens the murmur of the falling floods , And breathes a browner horror o' er the woods. While thus employed on the summit, we heard the bell tolling below for afternoon service.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Council of State was, probably, the consequence of horrour on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green, Deepens...murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horrour on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death,... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...and a dread repose. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods." On emerging from a fine beech wood, which closed this forest scene, we found ourselves, after a long... | |
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But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens... 
