 | William Beattie - Authors, Scottish - 1849 - 520 pages
...name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame ! " With respect to the often-quoted lines — 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before — * the following anecdote is preserved : — The happy thought first presented itself to his mind... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive1 King... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...watch of his wit ; by and by it will strike. Tempest — Act 2, Sc. 1. SHAKSPKARE. The EAST WIND. 7. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. Lochiel's Warning. CAMPBELL. 8. — Let me cultivate my mind With the soft thrillings of the Tragic... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...watch of his wit ; by and by it will strike. Tempest — Act 2, Sc. 1. SHAKSPEARE. The EAST WIND. 7. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. LochieVs Warning. CAMPBELL. 8. — Let me cultivate my mind With the soft thrillings of the Tragic... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...dayt Though, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, Yet man cannot cover what God would n-vQul : '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.... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...thus to prophesy. This is the thought embodied in the lines of the poet, which are so often quoled : " The sunset of life gives me mystical lore. And coming events cast their shadows before." Hence it is that there are prophetic intimations of Christ even in the heathen world. The tendency... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Poets, Scottish - 1850 - 514 pages
...name, Look proudly to heaven from the death -bed of fame ! " With respect to the often-quoted lines — "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events coat their thodoun before — * the following anecdote is preserved : — The happy thought first presented... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - Heaven - 1851 - 328 pages
...popularity which the following sentiment of the poet has gained, shows how well known is this truth — " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." Reason does not forbid, on the contrary it encourages us to believe that angels are constantly around... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...fantasies overleap Nature's boundaries, and who declares that " Man cannot cover what God would reveal ; Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." There is a mysterious solemnity in all he utters, as if his voice was only the response of an internal... | |
 | Criticism - 1851 - 650 pages
...part of the language itself. We will refer to two instances only. With respect to the lines, — " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before?' — the following anecdote is preserved. The happy thought first presented itself to his mind the previous... | |
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Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 
