 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
 | George Lansing Raymond, Post Wheeler - English language - 1911 - 236 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,...can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there." Pleasures of Hope : Campbell. 187. Re-write the following in poetic diction : • The carriage leaves... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-disco ver'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been....can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC i. OF Nelson and the North, Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...linger to survey 10 The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover 'd erefore, wherefore fall on me1 To be beloved is all...indeed. TO A GENTLEMANi COMPOSED ON THE NIOHT AFTE 1 As they had been for Elijah (t Klngg. 2 :11-13). •Which Elijah left for Elisha (2 Kings, 2 :8,... | |
 | Sister Mary Domitilla - 1917 - 396 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. THOMAS CAMPBELL. ... | |
 | Margaret Russett - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 19 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;...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. 15 Hoping amounts to a form of virtual tourism, the speculative ventures of a roving eye. What more... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - English poetry - 1888 - 790 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... | |
 | 1900 - 624 pages
...10 survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim discovered »cene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ;...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. THOMAS CAMPBELL. ft*. When the lines are of approximately equal length, but the rhyme is alternate,... | |
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