 | 1842 - 416 pages
...countenance of the Greek is wholly lost, and it is the soul of the picture ; — the light, as Byron says, Not as in northern climes obscurely bright But one unclouded blaze of living light — throws strongly forward his manly figure ; and the landscape and accessaries are all calculated... | |
 | 1860 - 620 pages
...his progress in the cloudy atmosphere of Europe, and the whole horizon glows with ruddy lustre ; " Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." At DO other moment does the verdure of th« mountain woods appear so vivid ; each spray dripping with... | |
 | 1844 - 834 pages
...afterwards poured the light of his genius over those lands of the sun where his descending orb set — ' Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, • But one unclouded blaze of living light." Scotland, my lord, may well be proud of such men, but she can no longer call these exclusively her... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 656 pages
...they rivalled, I may say far surpassed, Byron's description of the sun setting along Morea's height: ' Not as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light,' • The rarefaction of the atmosphere, which gave rise to a new and most beautiful aspect of the heavens;... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 pages
...and Mycenae - 4 Argos to Tripolizza - 9 Tripolizza to Mistra - 12 M. Mil. О 11 О О 11 2O О О " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along...living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throw«, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old jEgina's rock, and Idra's isle, The... | |
 | William Dansey - 1845 - 178 pages
...in putting into his prose the second line of Byron's splendid description of a sunset at Athens, " Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light," you will have the leaves for nothing." Indeed the whole work bears evident marks of a diligent perusal... | |
 | 1845 - 656 pages
...the reproach of foreigners ; but deeply, beautifully blue, with a tropical sun, as Byron says — " Not, as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light" — entirely superseding stoves and hot-beds, and all our expensive apparatus for the production of... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - 1845 - 336 pages
...While on the top of Alcathea, it was my good fortune to enjoy the scene so truly described by Byron : " Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills, the setting son ; Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1845 - 438 pages
...afterwards poured the light of his genius over those lands of the sun, where his descending orb sets — " Not as in northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light." Scotland, my lord, may well be proud of having given birth to, or awakened the genius of such men ;... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 pages
...illustrious men, in his undying poetry. " Slew sinks, more lovely ore his nee be run, Along Morca's bills the setting sun ; Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one undauded blaze of livmg light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave,... | |
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SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, ^ Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles... 
