| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1803 - 162 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...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, 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...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...tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With ihe bloodhounds, that bark for thy fugitive king. L6 ! anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath,... | |
| History - 1803 - 892 pages
...cLij ' 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
...day! — 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...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... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...brood." P. 119, 120. Again, in anticipation of Prince Charles's defeat and final escape by sea. : ** 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, "...before. " I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall rin?, ** With the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king : " Anointed by heav'n with the via's... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...conceive 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... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 272 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...blood-hounds, that bark for thy fugitive king. , Lo I anointed by heaven with the vials of wralhr Behold, where he flies on his desolate path ! Now, in... | |
| Classical philology - 1815 - 404 pages
...O-XOTEIVOU, is, I think, much more satisfactory, than Mr. B.'s notion about " the sun-set of life." (" The sun-set of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." . CAMPBELL'S " Lochiel") Capperonnier's version is right enough, " infer! Divi." J. Camerarius's note... | |
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