 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...Sun ? thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky : The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the...can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the...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 tempests ; when thunder... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the " sky : The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the wesvl tern wave, but thou thyself movest alone : Who '• can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of i; the mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay " with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou " comest forth in thy awful beauty ! the stars bide tkem" selves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks...western wave ; but thou thyself movest alone, who can be " the companion of thy course !" " 0 theity that with surpassing glory crowned, " Look'st from thy... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...everlasting, could have no conception of its creation, nor a suspicion from whence it proceeded. " The oaks of the mountains fall ; the " mountains themselves decay with years," is a philosophical or scriptural allusion, as remote from Ossian's sphere of observation, as the earthquakes... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the...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 tempests; when thunder... | |
 | James Macpherson, Archibald M'Donald - 1805 - 308 pages
...O Sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth " in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; " the moon, cold, and pale, sinks in the...thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion in thy " course! the oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains theui" selves decay with years; the... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the...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 tempests; when thunder... | |
 | William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...whence thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; and the stars hide themselves in the sky. The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou, thou thyself movest alone ! Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall} the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 338 pages
...Sun ? thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky : The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the...can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the... | |
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O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... 
