 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...forgot To thank his tale, he wonder' d not, — The king had been an hour asleep. THE PROPHECY OF DANTE. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. CAMPBELL. DEDICATION. LADY ! if for the cold and cloudy clime Where I was born, but where I... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...To thank his tale, he wonder'd not, — The king had been an hour asleep. PROPHECY OF DANTE. 'Ti-, the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadowi before. CAMPBELL. DEDICATION. LADY ! if for the cold and cloudy clime Where I was born, but... | |
 | 1833 - 548 pages
...attain To something like prophetic strain ; and a more modern poet makes the wizard say to Lochiel ; 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. This prophetic power cannot extend to very distant events from the information of Satan ; and... | |
 | William Craig Brownlee - Great Britain - 1833 - 242 pages
...horses.— CHAPTER IX. For dark and despairing my sight I may seal: Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day ! But man cannot cover, what God would reveal. 'Tis the sunset of life e;ives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before !—CAMPBEII>. " Search us, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 354 pages
...story. From evil keep you the high King of glory ! VOL. xi. s THE PROPHECY OF DANTE. ' Tis the (unset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." CAMPRELL. s 2 ['This poem which Lord Byron, in sending it to Mr. Murray, called " the best... | |
 | 1845 - 778 pages
...allude is as follows : 1 Lochiel ! Lochiel ! Beware of the day ! For, dark and despairing, my sight 1 may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal...mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." The originals of this may certainly be found in the subjoined passage from MILTON, and the... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...WIZARD. —Lochiel', Lochiel', beware of the day'! For', dark and despairing', my sight I may seal', Yet man cannot cover what God would reveal': Tis the sunset...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... | |
 | John Armstrong - Anatomy - 1834 - 1040 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 Hot do in physic. We have... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...cause if his prophetic skill, for when the red field of Culuden rushes upon his vision he exclaims " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." But I am. forgetting the passage with which I started out. In Blackwood's Magazine for Novem>er... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...proud ; All plaided and plumed in their tartan array Seer. Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man...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... | |
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Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 
