| Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...the day, For dark and despairing, my sight 1 may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 pages
...of the day ! -r, dark and despairing, my«ight I may seal, man cannot cover what God would reveal : 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the bloodhounds,' that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
| JOHN FORBES M.D. F.R.S. - 1836 - 650 pages
...of foretelling events; a power equal to that which our poet gives to the wizard, who exclaims— ' Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. And coming events cast their shadows before:'— it is allowable in a poet to speak of ' mystical lore,' but it will not do in physic. We have enough... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 pages
...in the ensuing story. From evil keep you the high King of glory! VOL. xi. s PROPHECY OF DANTE. * 'Us the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." CAMPBELL. THE TThis poem, which Lord Byron, in sending it to Mr. Murray, called " the best thing he... | |
| David Irving - English language - 1836 - 432 pages
...metaphor have been pointed out: we shall now turn to the contemplation of examples of a different kind. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.—Campbell. O ! when the growling winds contend, and all The sounding forest fluctuates in... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee. Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 332 pages
...the day ; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall-ring With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 328 pages
...tell in the ensuing story. From evil keep you the high King of glory ! THE PROPHECY OF DANTE. ' *T Is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." CAMPBELL. QTais poem, which Lord Byron, in sending It to Mr. Murray, called "the best thing he had... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...thoday For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring .With the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...day ! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal : ' Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
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