| Thomas Wallace Knox - 1875 - 716 pages
...altars ae no more divine. Descending low, the shadows, lingering, kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquered Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse,...More deeply purpled, meet his mellowing glance, And tendercst tints along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven, Till, darkly... | |
| 1876 - 906 pages
...glorv in some wise, and hills and hollows were rich and lovely at the parting of the sun. "Their nzure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled...mellowing glance ; And tenderest tints, along their eummits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven.' There is a change every moment almost,... | |
| 1877 - 828 pages
...altars are no more divine. Descending fast the mountainshadows kiss Thy glorious gulph, unconquered Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse...land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep." No remains have as yet been discovered of Phidias's celebrated statue of Zeus, which is the... | |
| Cornelius Conway Felton - 1877 - 1084 pages
...azure arches, through the long expanse, Wore deeply purpled, meet his mellowing glance ; And tendcrest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course,...from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff be sinks to sleep." After the sun goes down, the beauty of the night is equally wonderful, but different.... | |
| University magazine - 1877 - 872 pages
...glorious gulph, unconquered Salamis ! Their nzuro arches through the long expanse More deeply pnrpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along...own the hues of heaven ; Till darkly shaded from the laud and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep." No remains have as vet been discovered... | |
| 1877 - 844 pages
...altars are no more divine. Descending fast the mountainshadows kiss Thy glorious gulnh, unconquered Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mcllowinu glance, And teuderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the... | |
| 1878 - 300 pages
...altars are no more divine. Descending fast, the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, uneonquered Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse...land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep. On such an eve his palest beam he cast, When — Athens ! here thy wisest looked his last. How... | |
| Thomas Wallace Knox - 1878 - 720 pages
...altars are no more divine. Descending low, the shadows, lingering, kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquered Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse,...course and own the hues of heaven, Till, darkly shaded by the land and deep, Behind his Delphian rock, he sinks to sleep." The Acropolis cannot be seen satisfactorily... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...glorious gulf, unconquer'd Salamis! Their azure arches through the long expanse, More deeply purpled,meet rock he sinks to sleep. On such an eve his palest beam he cast, When, Athens ! here thy wisest look'd... | |
| Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 pages
...altars are no more divine. Descending fast, the mountain-shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquer'd Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse,...their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the lines of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian rock he sinks to... | |
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