| Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...fairer than the ghosts of the hills, when it moves in a sunbeam at noon over the silence of Morven.b 2. O Thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... | |
| William Russell - 1855 - 310 pages
...Melancholy, united with Grandeur. 1. — [OssiAN's APOSTROPHE TO THE Sus/l — Macpherson. " O them that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers'...everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty : the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... | |
| John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...feeble voice. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the' shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, 0 sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves... | |
| Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...monotone has great force and dignity in pronouncing grave, solemn and sublime language. EXAMPLE. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, 0 Sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...And ever-musing Melancholy reigns, — What means this tumult in a vestal's vein* ? • 3. 0 ! tlion that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, — whence are thy beams, 0 Sun ! thy everlasting light 7 Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in... | |
| Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - English poetry - 1856 - 602 pages
...clothed the daughter of many isles. We call back, maid of Lutha, the years that have rolled away! JO 0 THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of my...everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars bide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, •=inks in the western wave; but thou... | |
| Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1856 - 286 pages
...(disguised,) demunstrating. Mammon, foul, (wicked ?) pestilent, teeming, source. SECT. CCLXXIV. THE SUN. 1 O THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of...fathers ! whence are thy beams, O Sun! thy everlasting jght ? 2 Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky: the moon,... | |
| David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...the grave, settled upon Jerusalem. XXIII.— OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN.— Mtuphersrn't Ossian. 0 THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, 0 Sun; thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty — the stars hide themselves in... | |
| James Brown - English language - 1856 - 254 pages
...from the flowers of rhetoric ; as, "I am the true vine ; and my father is the husbandman," 2. " Oh thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, 0 sun! thy everlasting light? When the world is dark with tempests, when thunders roll and lightnings... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...noble 'Address to the Sun,' found in. Garthon, and his i Last Song,' at the close of his poems. Oh thon that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers. Whence are thy beams, Oh sun ! thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves... | |
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