...grand and vivid description of a storm amongst the mountains, there is a specimen of imitative harmony. Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! But let me return to Pope, who after all has given us more specimens of this peculiar beauty than...

...grand and vivid description of a storm amongst the mountains, there is a specimen of imitative harmony. Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! But let me return to Pope, who after all has given us more specimens of this peculiar beauty than...

...worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer! XCII. Thy sky is changed! — : lint every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, back to...

...instil, ' Weeping themselves away." Lake Leman, in a Storm. '* Thy sky is changed ! — and euch я change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are...woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling cragi among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue,...

...worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy pray'r ! XCII. The sky is changed ! — wffl Cod all this very ?/nlike Shabspeare ; and to m'ucn the brttr- _-t Oollgny. It lUndi it the top of a rapidly descending Tine, yard ; the wlndnwi commanding, one way,...

...grandeur that was to follow. But, when I turned to the page whence the line was taken, and read, — ' Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous...strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman,' the whole tone of my feelings seemed lowered, and the same sort of jarring sensation was produced in...

...of all Creator and Defence." Why not of Him who, &c. But, " The sky is changed I and such a change I Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous...strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman." Who does not feel the shock of the step or fall from the sublime into the ridiculous in this illustration...

...grandeur that was to follow. But, when I turned to the page whence the line was taken, and read,— And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet...strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman,' ' Oh night, the whole tone of my feelings seemed lowered, and the same sort of jarring sensation was...

...deception—by a single blow that jars all the nerves in our body— "Oh! night, And storm and darkness, yet are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman!!!" There are some fine and noble things in these same stanzas, but mixed with baser matter, and that,...

...heart I could but keep Holy to Heaven, a spot thus pure, and still, and deep ! THE SONG OF NIGHT.1 "O night, And storm and darkness ! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength ! " BYRON. I COME to thee, O Earth ! With all my gifts! — for every flower sweet dew In bell, and...