 | John Armstrong - Anatomy - 1834 - 1040 pages
...of foretelling events ; a power equal to that which our poet gives to the wizard, who exclaims — " "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, '• And coming events cast their shadows before." It is allowable in a poet to speak of " mystical lore," but it will Hot do in physic. We have enough... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...cause if his prophetic skill, for when the red field of Culuden rushes upon his vision he exclaims " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." But I am. forgetting the passage with which I started out. In Blackwood's Magazine for Novem>er 1819,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...proud ; All plaided and plumed in their tartan array Seer. Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man...for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold, where he flies on his desolate path ! Now, in darkness and billows, he... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 pages
...tartan array WIZARD. Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day ! -r, dark and despairing, my«ight I may seal, man cannot cover what God would reveal : 'Tis the...for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by heaven with the vials of wrath. Behold, where he flies on his desolate path ! Now, in darkness and billows, he... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...And set me up in hope. 758. Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day, For dark and despairing, my sight 1 may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal....the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king. 759. Now in darkness and billows he sweeps from my sight: Rise ! rise ! ye wild tempests and cover... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming...for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold, where he flies on his desolate path!" Ko\\ in darkness and billows he sweeps... | |
 | JOHN FORBES M.D. F.R.S. - 1836 - 650 pages
...of foretelling events; a power equal to that which our poet gives to the wizard, who exclaims— ' Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. And coming events cast their shadows before:'— it is allowable in a poet to speak of ' mystical lore,' but it will not do in physic. We have enough... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1836 - 432 pages
...metaphor have been pointed out: we shall now turn to the contemplation of examples of a different kind. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.—Campbell. O ! when the growling winds contend, and all The sounding forest fluctuates in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 pages
...in the ensuing story. From evil keep you the high King of glory! VOL. xi. s PROPHECY OF DANTE. * 'Us the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." CAMPBELL. THE TThis poem, which Lord Byron, in sending it to Mr. Murray, called " the best thing he... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 332 pages
...proud, All plaided and plumed in their tartan array WIZARD. Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man...shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall-ring With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by Heaven with the vials... | |
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Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 
