...Books which are no books. THOMAS CAMPBELL. 1777-1844. PLEASURES OF HOPE. Part i. Line 7. "Pis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Line 359. O Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save. Line 381. Hope for a season bade the world...

...to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." Garth has the same idea in the following couplet : — " At distance prospects please us, but when...

...do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smilmg near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar,...

...those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." And all that sort of thing. After having passed over the bridge that crosses the Golden Horn and joins...

...do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way, Thus, from afar,...

...which at the proper distance alone are grouped into grandeur and mellowed into beauty. 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Even the height of a great mountain is not usually appreciated by looking up from its base. If it rose...

...those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near T 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar...

...those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus with delight we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way ; Thus, from afar,...

...reverent and becoming way. Distance often lends boldness to the tongue, as the poet Campbell says it Lende enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. There are few great men who haven'ta dozen people, at least, who " keep them right," as they call it....

...which a man who lives within twenty of it, has never taken the trouble to examine. Tis distance leads enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. At Cincinnati I stayed about two months ; during which time 1 pursued my studies in the office of Mr....