 | Great Britain - 1809 - 660 pages
...day! Fur dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But pian cannot cover what God would reveal; Tit the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadow« before. 1 tell thee, CHilloden'i dread echo shall ring With the blood-hounds that bark for... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1803 - 162 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...bloodhounds, that bark for thy fugitive king. Lo! Anointed by Heav'n with the vials of wrath, Behold, where he flies on his desolate path! Now, in darkness and billows,... | |
 | History - 1803 - 866 pages
...f. 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...the bloodhounds, that bark for thy fugitive king. Lo 1 anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold, where he flies on his desolate path ! Now, in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1803 - 1298 pages
...For, For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But mail cannot cover what God would reveal : 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming...tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With liic bloodhounds, that bark tor thy fugitive king. 1л ! anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath,... | |
 | History - 1803 - 892 pages
...' For, dark and despairing, mv Mght I may seal, But man cannot cover what < iod would reveal : "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows betört-. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the bloodhounds, that bark for thy fugitive... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1803 - 892 pages
...sight than has been ever conceived in prose or poetry, when the gifted seer exclaims, 'Tis the suil-sct of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. • On the whole, these Poems are the productions of a very extraordinary young man. And, to use a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Massacre, 1778 - 1809 - 148 pages
...— For dark and despairing, my sight I may seal; But man cannot cover what God would reveal : i 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming...the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king: Anointed by heav'n with the vials of wrath, Behold! where he flies on his desolate path. Now, in darkness... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...that gloomy visionaries would not be wanting, who, with the Wizard of Campbell, might pretend " Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, *' And coming events cast their shadows before ;" and that, with the assistance of dreams, disturbed by indigestion or by dejection of spirits, they... | |
 | British Columbia. Superintendent of Education - 1899 - 756 pages
..."Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream !" (d.) "I tell thee, Culloden's drsad echoes shall ring With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king." (e.) " Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose." (f.)... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 266 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...for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold, where he flies on his desolate path! Now, in darkness and billows, he sweeps... | |
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Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 
