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" And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And, shooting through the darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light... "
The Geography of the Heavens: And Class-book of Astronomy : Accompanied by a ... - Page 155
by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1860 - 345 pages
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The holy Bible, from the authorized tr., with a comm. and critical ..., Volume 5

Adam Clarke - 1817 - 726 pages
...cœlo labi, noctiaque per umbram Flammanan longos ŕ tergo albcscere trnctus. VIRG. Geor. i. ver. 3G5. And oft before tempestuous winds arise The seeming...night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light. . Dry den. Again the same poet thus sings : SOL tibi signa dabit : solem quis dicere falsum Audeat...
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The Northern star, or, Yorkshire magazine, Volume 2

Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 pages
...before tempestuous wind« arise, The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And, shooting throngh the darkness, gild the night * With sweeping glories, and long trails of light." Vrgden. Are not the two following lines, which describe the withered leaf borne abort by the wind,...
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The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse, by John Dryden ..., Volume 1

Virgil - 1819 - 488 pages
...wat'ry stand, And, mounting upward with erected flight, Gain on tlie skies, and soar above the sight. And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light; And chaff with eddy- winds is whirl'd around, And dancing leaves are lifted from the ground ; And floating...
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Poetry for Children: Consisting of Short Pieces to be Committed to Memory

Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And, shooting thro' the darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light : The Huntsman. 77 And chaflj with eddy winds, is whirl'd around ; And dancing leaves are lifted from...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 14

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...watery stand, And, mounting upward with erected flight, Gain on the skies, and soar above the sight. And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light ; And chaff with eddy-winds is whirl'd around, And dancing-leaves are lifted from the ground ; And...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...upward with erected flight, Gain on the skies, and soar above the sight. 2 Dr. Carey reads serenely. And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light; And chaff with eddy winds is whirl'd around, And dancing leaves are lifted from the ground; And floating...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...impendente videbis Praecipites cfclo labi, noctisque per umbrnm Flammaruin longos a tcrgo albcscere tractus. And oft before tempestuous winds arise. The...night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light. Dryden. 560. — he thus began in haste] This abruptness is here very elegant and proper to express...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...impcndente videbit Pracipites ctelo labi, noctis-qne per umbram Flammarum longos a tcrgo albcscere tractus. And oft before tempestuous winds arise. The...darkness gild the night With sweeping glories, and long trai I. of light. Dryden. 560. —he thus began in haste] This abruptness is here very elegant and...
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The Works of Virgil, Volume 1

Virgil - 1825 - 278 pages
...wat'ry stand, And, mounting upward with erected night, Gain on the skies, and soar above the sight 500 And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories, and Ipug trails of light ; And chaff with eddy-winds is whirl'd around, 505 And dancing leaves are lifted...
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The Works of Virgil

Virgil - 1828 - 550 pages
...the sight. 500 And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming stars fall headlong from tlifc skies, And, shooting through the darkness, gild the...night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light ; And chaff with eddy winds is whirl'd around, 501 And dancing leaves are lifted from the ground ~r...
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