 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 416 oldal
...sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses 3 Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...vale of flowers, . , Is sleeping rosy at his feet. • . I y • » To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 oldal
...wave." From Chateaubriand's Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses* Softly the light...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flower* Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 oldal
...not — holier far " Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 oldal
...the world. One lordly mountain indeed remains immutably the same, Whose head in wintry grandeur towen And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Lies sleeping rosy at his feet. And well may it be called the " Sovereign Blanc/' It is a singular... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 oldal
...wave." — From CHATEAUBRIAND'S Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light...And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBArvoi*, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 346 oldal
...hence called Suristan (the Land of Roses).* " Each common bush shall Syrian roses wear." VIRGIL. " Now, upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes." T. MOORE. Forster says, " the rose of Kashmire for its brilliancy and delicacy of odour has long been... | |
 | 1872 - 348 oldal
...in magnificent repose ; and of it one of our poets says : " Like a glory, the broad sun Hangs o'er sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." The Lebanon range is properly an immense tract of mountainous country, about 100 miles in length. Its... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 oldal
...olives, vines, Our cedars, palms, and all the verdant wealth That crowns fair Lebanon's aspiring brow." " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." MOORE'S Paradise and the Peri. " Down in a vale where lucid waters strayed And mountain-cedars stretched... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 326 oldal
..." Than ev'n this sigh the hoon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thec." Now, upon STRIA'S land of roses* Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LERANON; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a.vale... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 oldal
...chill of the coldest winter, even in a day's journey up a lofty mountain, such as the majestic Etna, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.* Mountains, again, give origin... | |
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Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And like a glory the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Is sleeping rosy at his feet. 
