 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 education society - 1837 - 450 pages
...the future,— mysterious, romantic, poetic, full of bright, and long, and beckoning years : — " And every form, that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there." Is the antiquity of Homer, then, any proof of his inferiority1? The low state of classical learning,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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 heavenly power, The... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 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...repair' From dark oblivion', glows divinely there*. The Miser. — POLLOK. But there is one in folly farther gone*, With eye awry*, incurable', and wild*,—... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 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. With thee, sweet hope, resides the heavenly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight. Thine... | |
 | Hope - 1841 - 200 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Friendship - 1841 - 358 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Grant - Great Britain - 1841 - 330 pages
...view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way ; Thus, from afar, each...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. The " Pleasures of Hope" concludes with the following lines : — Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres... | |
 | Friendship - 1841 - 360 pages
...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...past hath been ; And every form that fancy can repair Prom dark oblivion glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus from afar, each dim discover'd seen?, More pleasing seems than all the past hath been And...repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. Night. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayiess majesty now stretches forth Her leaden... | |
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