...Eighth Iliad, in which Homer compares the watch-fires of the Trojans to the stars in the firmament: When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene. Pope's amplification may, perhaps, be pardoned, since every line is beautiful. Still it is a hazardous...

...first the iombal suught ' A wealtby priest, but rich without a fault. Conclusion of Boot viii. r. 687. 'As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreadsW sacred light When not a breath di.turbs the deep serene! And not a cloud o'crcasts the solemn...

...the Trojan camp ? "• As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercast the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the...

...Ambrosiana; returns, and she is made again to feel the exquisite beauty of those lines of Homer and Pope— " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her sacreU light 1" We must not, however, be too severe on the world, whose chief fault, after all, is...

...to every land, , The work of an Almighty hand. 175 Moon, that now meets the orient sun, now fly'st, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...

...vme'payH fanrrrix orfifj, v T' viJ tra d5-T{»- •yvyiiBt ti TI $£H* mi/jait' — Il. viii. 555. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the sweet serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...

...vrnffotyn fovnrK iudn'g, n«»T* ft T' tifrrtu dirTjif yry&t t\ TI $§(»« trafaif — II. viii. 555. ui, As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the sweet serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...

...at the cottage window — still no answer. " All silent as night !" said she — " When not a brealh disturbs the deep serene, " And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene." •' — Angelina, as she repeated these lines, stood with her back to the cottage window : the window...

...illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! U'er heaven's clear azure spreads k roars; tumultuous boil the waves; They toss, they...foam, a wild confusion raise, Like waters bubbling o ; 680 Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the...

...nature that noble scene, whose beauties it is scarcely possible to transfuse into any foreign dialect. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the...