 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 thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course?...  The Vassar Miscellany - Page 491890Full view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...wave, but thou thyself movest alone : who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ;...the moon 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 tempest ;... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains themselves...: the moon 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;... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...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 moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art " for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of " thy course. When the world is dark frith tem"... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...Ossian's sphere of observation, as the earthquakes that " shake green Erin " from side to side." — " The ocean shrinks and grows *' again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven i but thou art for " ever the same ; rejoicing in the strength of thy course. " But to Ossian thou... | |
 | 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
...pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone : who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall : the mountains themselves...the moon 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;... | |
 | James Macpherson, Archibald M'Donald - 1805 - 308 pages
...who can be a companion in thy " course! the oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains theui" selves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again..." the moon herself is lost in heaven; but thou art for ever the *' find, that he, like all other translators, has " omitted several particularising circumstances... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...from the clouds, and laughest'at the storm." But the variations of imagery require also a comment. " The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years ;" is a scriptural alteration of Fingal, iii. ". " The oaks resound on their mountains, and the rocks... | |
 | William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...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 mountains themselves...the moon 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... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course! The oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains themselves...again: the moon 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;... | |
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