 ... scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ! And every form, that fancy 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, with all her...  The Pleasures of Hope,: With Other Poems - Page 10by Thomas Campbell - 1825 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1803 - 162 pages
...the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity? Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly power, The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour? Ah, no! she...Or, if she hold an image to the view, 'Tis Nature pictur'd too severely true. With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light, That pours remotest... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly power, The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour ? Ah, no ! she...Or, if she hold an image to the view, 'Tis Nature pictur'd too severely true.* With thee, sweet Hope ! resides the heav'nly light, That pours remotest... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1804 - 144 pages
...dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly powejr, The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour f Ah, no ! she darkly sees the fate of man.... Her dim...; Or, if she hold an image to the view, Tis Nature pictur'd too severely true. • x • With thee, sweet Hope ! resides the heav'nly light, That pours... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...comparative blessings of Wisdom and Hope, he exclaims : " Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly power, " The pledge of joy's anticipated hour ? " Ah, no !...Or if she hold an image to the view, *' 'Tis Nature pictur'd too severely true." This last couplet is beyond praise. Of the accidental gales that may ruffle... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
...raptur'd eye • To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly pow'r, The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour? Ah, no! she...Or, if she hold an image to the view, 'Tis Nature pictur'd too severely true. r> PIEASTSES OF HOPE. X J. Stew art. sculp 2, tamia.n£ Hal Iftl d>aaimzi... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1817 - 166 pages
...the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly pow'r, The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour ? Ah, no ! she...the view, 'Tis Nature pictured too severely true. Rur litt' del , ^> Jr/tctt f titttt/r) fftit/ /-'} etttH <\ hrm/Mtt/ Tra} , &>tx///ie ta^d&MWNV o^Anl... | |
 | England - 1839 - 870 pages
...say that they understand one single line of Collins. Again : — " With thee, iweet Hope ! reiides the heavenly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight ; Thine is the charm of life's bewildrr'd way, That calls each slumbering passion into play. Waked by thy touch, I see the siiter... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 254 pages
...raplur'd eye 15 To pierce the shades of dim futurity ' Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly power, The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour ? Ah, no ! she darkly sees the fate of man— Her dim horizon hounded to a span i 20 Or, if she hold an image to the view, :Th Mature pietur'd too severely true,... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 264 pages
...But when beauty's cut off in life's opening bloom, We mourn that it passes so quickly away." CHAP. IL With thee, sweet Hope, resides the heavenly light That pours remotest rapture on the sight : Thine are the charms of life's bewilder'd way, That calls each slumbering passion into play. CAMPBELL. Visionary... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 268 pages
...beauty's cut off in life's opening bloom, We mourn that it passes so quickly away." CHAP. CHAP. II. With thee, sweet Hope, resides the heavenly light That pours remotest rapture on the sight : Thine are the charms of life's bewilderM way, '. . That calls each slumbering passion into play. CAMPBBL&.... | |
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