 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green, Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods And breathes a browner horror on the woods." POPS. In a land of absentees, the poor and the aged, the deeplate and the lonely may well exclaim in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...her throws 165 A death-like silence and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens...browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can break the lasting chain... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...round her throws A deathlike silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods." These lines have been happily imitated by Dr. Darwin in hisowu manner: that is, with a view solely... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...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 horror on the woods. 170 142. domes] See p. 175, l. 65n. 152 f. The superscription of Eloisa's first letter begins 'To her Lord,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1892 - 1056 pages
...picture. This is the art of Mrs. Lynn Linton. Like melancholy, Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods And adds a browner horror to the woods. It is as old as human nature, this proneness to denigration : not... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - Europe - 518 pages
...Melancholy fits, and round her throws A death-like filence, and a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades every flower, and darkens every...the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the wood?." The The river, expanding into a vaft bay, feems nearly furrounded by mountains, that... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 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 horror on the woods. The gloomy allusions to 'Melancholy', 'silence', 'twilight' and 'sadness' do not merely create atmosphere,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...around her convent: 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 on the woods. (Eloisa to Abelard, lines 167-70) Eloisa's inner activity distorts the church service, even as the... | |
 | Frances Brooke - Education - 1985 - 540 pages
...Abelard," 1717, 11. 169-70; Eloísa is describing a scene near her convent where "Black Melancholy" now "Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, / And breathes a browner horror on the woods." See The Twickenham Edition. Vol. 2, p. 333. 305.12-13 Si. Joseph, the patron of Canada} St. Joseph... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 338 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. One picture replaces another. The pretty pastoral images of the first six Unes, innocently dreamy,... | |
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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... 
