 | Peter Abelard, Héloïse, François Guizot - 1839 - 410 pages
...a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene , 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. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death , only death , can... | |
 | Mrs. N. K. M. Lee - Baking - 1840 - 400 pages
...their reality. This is but a faint picture of Dyspepsy. 'Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green, Deepens...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.' This malady is beyond the science of the physician, but within the art of the cook ; in the proverb,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...round her throw« A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, keness, by themselves defac'd; While they pervert...To lothesome sickness ; worthily, since they God's Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only Death, can... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Who co Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only Death, can... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, 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. 170 142. domes] See p. 175, l. 65n. 152 f. The superscription of Eloisa's first letter begins 'To her... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - Europe - 518 pages
...— «« O'er the twilight groves, and dnfky caves, Long-founding aifles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy fits, and round her throws A death-like...the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the wood?." The The river, expanding into a vaft bay, feems nearly furrounded by mountains, that... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, 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. The gloomy allusions to 'Melancholy', 'silence', 'twilight' and 'sadness' do not merely create atmosphere,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...around her convent: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, 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. (Eloisa to Abelard, lines 167-70) Eloisa's inner activity distorts the church service, even as the... | |
 | Frances Brooke - Education - 1985 - 540 pages
...Abelard," 1717, 11. 169-70; Eloísa is describing a scene near her convent where "Black Melancholy" now "Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, / And breathes a browner horror on the woods." See The Twickenham Edition. Vol. 2, p. 333. 305.12-13 Si. Joseph, the patron of Canada} St. Joseph... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 338 pages
...and 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. One picture replaces another. The pretty pastoral images of the first six Unes, innocently dreamy,... | |
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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... 
