 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
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene, More pleasing seems than all the past has been, And every form that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion glows divinely there." Let poets be just to one another ; but alas ! we fear it is among the greatest that jealousy or some... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Erotic poetry, English - 1821 - 168 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 heav'nly pow'r, The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English fiction - 1822 - 166 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 heav'nly pow'r, The... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 434 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... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...linger to survey 3 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 ? 5 Can Wisdom lend, with all her boasted power,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1828 - 260 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 heav'nly pow'r, The... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 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... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered Ss x * * fonn, that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...mountain in ils azure hue. Thin, 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 bath been ; Anil every form, that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 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... | |
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