 | 1849 - 770 pages
...cascades- — a glorious sunset, with the tinted clouds grouped around the mountains, " While, through tho west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray" — i . she rarely failed to impress upon their minds th;U all this loveliness and goodness sprang... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...'twere holy ground. Gray quotes the following lines in one of Mason's odes as ' superlative :' — he's marriage as her father supposed him. Not that he was ever a lover of the lad/i ; [From Caractacua.] Mona on Snowdon calls : Hear, thou king of mountains, hear ; Hark, she speaks from... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...diction has a fine effect. Gray quotes the following lines in one of Mason's odes as ' superlative':— While through the west, where sinks the crimson day. Meek twilight slowly sails, and waves his banners gray. To this couplet we add the following lyric from ' Caractacus,' and the Epitaph on... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...longer than I remember his " English Garden"— longer than I remember big best couplet of verse : " While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray." It was alleged, indeed, by those who loved to say ill-natured things, (Horace Walpole among them,)... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...diction has a fine effect Gray quotes the lowing lines in one of Mason's odes as ' superlative' : — While through the west, where sinks the crimson day. Meek twilight slowly sails, and waves his banners gray. To thi» couplet we add the following lyric from ' Caractacus,' and the >itaph on... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1865 - 346 pages
...than I remember his " English Garden," — longer than I remember his best couplet of verse : — " While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray." It was alleged, indeed, by those who loved to say ill* Of which the first book was published in 1772.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...hollow gust of wind, — As drops this little weeping rill, Sole tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?"" * Mason's Ode to a Friend. In the same richly poetic vein are the following lines from Collins's Ode... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...hollow gust of wind ; As drops this little weeping rill, Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill? Whilc through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and weaves her banners gray. MASON. When twilight skies look faintly down, When noon lies hush'd on leaf... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1877 - 696 pages
...this hollow gust of wind ; As drops this little weeping rill Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill ; While through the west, where sinks the crimson day,...Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray !' MAsON. EMILY, some time after her return to La Vallée, received letters from her aunt, Madame Cheron,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...this hollow gust of wind ; As drops this little weeping rill, Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill ? While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and weaves her banners gray. MASON. When twilight skies look faintly down, When noon lies hush'd on leaf... | |
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Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand supply, A charm so suited to my mind, As blows this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill, Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the... 
