 | John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...tears ol' love instil, Weeping themselves away." Lake Leman, in a Storm. "Thy sky i$ changed ! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness,...dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, vhe rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...mountains the hero is overtaken by a storm which is very inefficiently painted : " The sky is chang'd ! and such a change ! Oh night And storm, and darkness,...your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ?" Surely this is extremely affected, and the simile as illplaced and unnatural as possible : what... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...painted: " The sky is chang'd! and such a change! Oh night And storm, and darkness, ye are uond'rous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a <Lirk eye in woman ?" Surely this is extremely affected, and the simile as illplaced and unnatural... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...into madness. Winds, tempests, warring, bewailing, uttering a forlorn hope or muttering despair — " Far along From peak to peak the rattling- crags among Leaps the live thunder." There is war in heaven : every mountain is trumpet-tongued ; the artillery of the elements threatens... | |
 | 1818 - 506 pages
...stormy night : at Teast, fully adequate to support him with a kindred troop of defects. B. • • From peak to peak the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder!" LORD DE (GREY, OR THE STOIC. BY THE AUTHOR OP " LEGENDS Of LAMPIDOIA." — — « •; From the European... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 404 pages
...gave but a weak image of the storms which had desolated his own breast. The sky is changed ! — and such a change ; oh ! night! And storm and darkness,..., Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud t But every mountain now hath found a tongue. And Jura answers thro' her misty shroud, Back to the... | |
 | A. Yosy - 1823 - 574 pages
...faint idea of the magnificence of such a spectacle, viewed from such a place. " The sky is changed! and such a change: Oh, night And storm, and darkness,...strong; Yet lovely In your strength, as is the light Of pardon to the spirit! Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder!... | |
 | Charles Swan - 1823 - 310 pages
...sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep: The sky is changed!—and such a change! oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong." CHILDE HAROLD, Canto 3d. I. THE night is calm—a silvery moon Rides through a cloudless sky, The voice... | |
 | James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 pages
...crown, Touch'd his descending disk, and rested there ." " The sky is chang'd ! — and such a change ! O night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong,...your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ." Nature, as if wearied of Jier long-continued smiling aspect, puts it aside for a time, and appears... | |
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Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder... 
