Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past... The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems - Page 3by Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
| American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasur'd way, Thus, from afar, each...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. —Campbell: "The Pleasures of Hope!' CXV.—GRATITUDE. THERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 240 pages
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been...glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her boasted power, The... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 852 pages
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-diseover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been,...glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her heavenly power, The... | |
| John William Kirton - Elocution - 1880 - 284 pages
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been...glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her boasted power, The... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Children's Literature, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been;...glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her boasted power, The... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been...glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity? Can Wisdom lend, with all her heavenly power, The... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way , Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been,...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. * # * With thee, sweet Hope ! resides the heavenly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; , Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been,...repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there." The sweet idyllic style of Gertrude of Wyoming is peculiarly happy,—the description of the paradisiacal... | |
| James Sully - Dreams - 1881 - 444 pages
...impulses of our emotional nature have their richest harvest. "Thus, from afar, each dim disoover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath .been...repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there." The recurring emotions, the ruling aspirations, find objects for themselves in this veiled region.... | |
| English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene THOMAS CAMPBEL!.. 331 _-9 1 More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. Primeval HOPE, the Aonian muses say, When Man and Nature mourn' d their first decay, When every form... | |
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