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" But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens... "
Solitude Considered with Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart - Page 256
by Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799
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Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the ..., Volume 1

Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1800 - 410 pages
...prefence faddens all the fcene, " Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; '* Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, " And breathes a browner horror on the woods." POPE — Eloifa to Ahelartl. I 3 BUT BUT how the foul expands, and every thought becomes ferene and free,...
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Nocturnal Visit: A Tale

Regina Maria Roche - Irish fiction - 1801 - 312 pages
...a dread repose ; Her glocmy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry floiv'r, and darkens ev'ry green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods." POP,K. The same good-humour and sprightliness, which had rendered the preceding part...
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Poetical Works...: To which are Now Added Inscriptionum Romanarum ..., Volume 1

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...pifture of the effefts of melancholy : Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Sbades every jlmver, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breatbes a browner borror on the woods. Eldf. to AM. 16.7. [ 13 1 Bold to conceive, nor timorous to...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 2

1804 - 552 pages
...and u dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens cv'ry green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. ' These lines have been happily imitated by Dr Darwin in hf« own manner ; that is, with a view solely...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...dread repose ; . Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods*. Pope had now obtained a great and deserved reputation, but his efforts had been hitherto attended with little...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods*. Pope had now obtained a great and deserved reputation, but his efforts had been hitherto attended with little...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose; - Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. The figurative expressions, throws, and breathes, and browner horror, are, I verily believe, some of...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 480 pages
...Edward King, STITENS. Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades cv'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever muft I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 486 pages
...Edward King, STEVENS. Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever mufi I flay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Sappho to Phaon. Eloisa to Abelard. The ...

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 478 pages
...Edward King, STEVENS. Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry fiow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. i70 Yet here for ever, ever mud I ftay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can...
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