 Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue Some long-loved...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 841856Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 208 pages
...her native sphere, Oft will she rise—with searching glance pursue Some long-lov'd image vanish'd from her view; Dart thro' the deep recesses of the...past, O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast; With giant-grasp fling back the folds of night, And snatch the faithless fugitive to light. So thro' the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 222 pages
...truth illumin'd, and by taste refin'd ? When Age has quench'd the eye and clos'd the ear, Still nerv'd for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue Some long-lov'd image vanish'd from her view; Dart thro' the deep recesses of the past, O'er dusky forms... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1802 - 308 pages
...truth illumin'd, and by taste refin'd? When Age has quench'd the eye and clos'd the ear, Still nerv'd for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue Some long-lov'd image vanish'd from her view; Dart thro' the deep recesses of the past, O'er dusky forms... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...she rise....with searching glance pursue Some long-lov'd image vanish'd from her view ; Dart through the deep recesses of the past, O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast ; With giant-grasp fling back the folds of night, And snatch the faithless fugitive to light. So through the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft...past, O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast; With giant-grasp fling back the folds of night, And snatch the faithless fugitive to light. So thro' the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...mind, /By truth illumined, and by taste refined? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft...pursue Some long-loved image vanished from her view ; /T 0 l)art thro' the deep recesses of the past, O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast; With... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 pages
...troth illumined, and by taste refined? ' " When age has quench^ the eye and closed the ear, '• j> Still nerved for action in her native sphere, ' Oft...glance pursue ¡ ' • • : Some long-loved image vanish'd from the view ; Dart through the deep recesses of the past ; / O*er dusky forms in chains... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1820 - 272 pages
...the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise—with searching glance pursue Some long-loved image vanished...past, O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast; With giant-grasp fling back the folds of night, And snatch the faithless fugitive to light. So thro' the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...refined ? Still nerved for action in her native sphere, When age has quenched the eye and closed the ear, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue...Some long-loved image vanished from her view ! Dart through the deep recesses of the past, O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast : With giant-grasp... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft...past, O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast; With giant-grasp fling back the folds of night, And snatch the faithless fugitive to light. So thro' the... | |
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