 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1822 - 536 pages
..., No nightingale : look , love , what envious streaks Do lace llie severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out ; and jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top : I must be gone and live , or slay and die. Jet. Yon light is not day light , I know it , I :... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 878 pages
...morn, No nightingale : look, love, what envious streakc Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east* Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tope. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. Jul. Yon light is not daylight, I know it, 1 . It is... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...returning morning? — " See, love ! what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East : Night's candles* are burnt out, — and jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain lops." Where shall we find sweet sounds and odours so luxuriously blended and illustrated, as in these... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...returning morning? — " See, love ! what envious streaks Do lace lhe severing clouds in yonder East: Night's candles' are burnt out, — and jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain iops." Where shall we find sweet sounds and odours so luxuriously blended and illustrated, as in these... | |
 | 1860 - 836 pages
...grandeur of nature, and you have one of the finest illustrations of the triumph of mind over matter/ " Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top." At night we could only see the dark outlines of the scenery around us, but day breaking in upon... | |
 | Double acrostics - 1862 - 208 pages
...ADORNED IT. 1. "Look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east." 2. <P Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top." 3. "A little onward lend thy guiding hand, To those dark steps — a little further on." 4. "... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1873 - 440 pages
...noble simile in the same play (Act HI. sc. 2), in which Romeo announces the approach of morning : " Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top " — * Milton has in like manner very finely transferred the motion of the clouds to the moon,... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1881 - 302 pages
...forged. 27. I have bought golden opinions. 28. His, words fell softer than snows on the brine. 29. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund Day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top. Direction.— In the first four sentences, use similes ; in the second four, metaphors ; in the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 430 pages
...noble simile in the same play (Act in. sc. 2), in which Rorneo announces the approach of morning : " Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top " — * Milton has in like manner very finely transferred the motion of the clouds to the moon,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 446 pages
...noble simile in the same play (Act HI. sc. 2), in which Romeo announces the approach of morning : " Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top " — * Hilton has in like manner very finely transferred the motion of the clouds to the moon,... | |
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No nightingale : look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east ; Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top : I must be gone and live, or stay and die. 
