 This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.  The Monthly Review - Page 2731842Full view - About this book
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...Parthenon, Or on the ruins of the Capitol. j. Montgomery. LONDON AT SUNRISE. EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glitt'ring in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 pages
...Sonnet composed on Westmiuslerbridge' will recur to every reader's remembrance. ' Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky . . . The river glideth at his own sweet will . . . And all that mighty heart is lying... | |
 | 1835 - 746 pages
...Westminster Bridge. Earth has not anything to shew more fair ; Dull would he be the soul who could- pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ; This city now...bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 pages
...truthfulness of this great master's poetry more deeply than I did at the hour, of which I am now writing ; " Silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky ! All bright and glittering in the smokeless air ;"— and then, when I came to the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED OPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, — All bright and glittering in the smokeless nir. Never did sun more beautifully... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : The city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto^the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...",' Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight to touching in Its majesty : This City now doth, like...domes, theatres and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the nnokeleu air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...properly seen, that of sunrise, when, in the noble lines of Wordsworth,— " Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air !''— 2 H This period is carefully... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pages
...properly seen, that of sunrise, when, in the noble lines of Wordsworth, — " Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could...towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the ņelds and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smckcless air!"— This period is carefully... | |
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