| Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 360 páginas
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been;...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 328 páginas
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been,...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend,... | |
| Edward Young - 1837 - 556 páginas
...my distress; and night, Even in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye, nor listening... | |
| American education society - 1837 - 450 páginas
...the future, — mysterious, romantic, poetic, full of bright, and long, and beckoning years :— " And every form, that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there." Is the antiquity of Homer, then, any proof of his inferiority 1 The low state of classical learning,... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 páginas
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been;...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend,... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 páginas
...inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. SLOWER AND MORE SOLEMN Night, sable goddess 1 from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world: Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye nor listening... | |
| Henry De la Pasture - 1839 - 948 páginas
...related fectly free from all such readers as d serious for a momenl the next chapter. CHAPTEE IV. " Night, sable Goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye nor list'ning... | |
| Edward Young - 1839 - 300 páginas
...my distress; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! 1 Nor eye nor list'ning... | |
| 1839 - 876 páginas
...unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, e»ch dim-discovered scene, More pleasing seems than all the past has been, And every form that fancy can repair. From dark oblivion glows divinely there." Let poets be just to one another ; but alas ! we fear it is among the greatest that jealousy or some... | |
| 1839 - 894 páginas
...unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene, More pleasing seems than all the past haï been, And every form that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion glows divinely there." Let poets be just to one another ; but alas ! we fear it is among- the greatest that jealousy or some... | |
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