 The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven; bat thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests,...  The Poems of Ossian - Page 2611810Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Carter - 1817 - 378 pages
...may remind the reade,r of Ossian's address to the Sun, in the conclusion of the poem pf " Carthon." " When the world is dark •with tempests; when thunder...in. thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the *torm." proved by the " Silver Medway," which glides through a very arcadian valley, within sight of... | |
 | REV. MONTAGU PENNINGTON - 1817 - 380 pages
...may remind the reader of Ossian's aildressto the Sun, in the conclusion of the poem of " Carthoru" " When the world is dark with tempests; when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou Jookcst in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm," . I : . 328 proved by the " Silver... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 328 pages
...themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in Heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempest; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in the heavens ; but thou art forever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. — When the world is dark with tempests, when thunders roll, and lightnings fly, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the... | |
 | Sir John Bowring - English poetry - 1821 - 288 pages
...grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thoii art for ever the same, rejoicing in (he brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with...lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the cloude, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian, thou lookest in vain; for he beholds thy beams no... | |
 | 1822 - 326 pages
...themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempest; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest... | |
 | Domestic, literary and village sketches - Great Britain - 1823 - 168 pages
...themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again : the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for ever the same ; rejoicing in the brightness...course. When the world is dark with tempests : when the thunder rolls, and lightning flies : thou lookest In thy beauty, from the clouds, and laughest... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in Heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempest ; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in Heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark «*li Of this nature is indolence, a failing, I had almost said a vice, of all others the least alarming,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven : — 3 but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. — 4 When the world is dark with tempests ; when thunder rolls and lightning flies; thou — 5Jookest... | |
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