 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...watch of his wit ; by and by it will strike. Tempest — Act 2, Sc. 1. SHAKSPKARE. The EAST WIND. 7. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. Lochiel's Warning. CAMPBELL. 8. — Let me cultivate my mind With the soft thrillings of the Tragic... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...watch of his wit ; by and by it will strike. Tempest — Act 2, Sc. 1. SHAKSPEARE. The EAST WIND. 7. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. LochieVs Warning. CAMPBELL. 8. — Let me cultivate my mind With the soft thrillings of the Tragic... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...thus to prophesy. This is the thought embodied in the lines of the poet, which are so often quoled : " The sunset of life gives me mystical lore. And coming events cast their shadows before." Hence it is that there are prophetic intimations of Christ even in the heathen world. The tendency... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...poem was written : — " Lochiel ! Lochiel ! though my eyes I should seal, Man can not keep secret what God would reveal. Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And the coming events cast their shadows before." Now this comparison of the dark uncertain sort of prescience... | |
 | Gene Stratton-Porter - Autobiographical fiction - 1913 - 568 pages
...and pigged it up straight along, I'd pinch it, if I got a chance. CHAPTER IV THE LAST DAY IN EDEN " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." OF course the baby was asleep and couldn't be touched; but there was some excitement, anyway. Father... | |
 | John Woolf Jordan - Delaware County (Pa.) - 1914 - 498 pages
...deduce correct conclusions with an almost prophetic insight. Like the seer in Lochiel's Warning : " Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore : and coming events cast their shadows before." His is an ideal old age. After the fever and heat of the strife in Life's battle, he now rests in his... | |
 | Ralph Shirley - Occultism - 1915 - 88 pages
...our own poets -)- in a couplet, the second line of which is familiar to every schoolboy, tells us : 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. The idea of both writers is the same, that in a certain sense the future is implicit in the present... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1915 - 472 pages
...for this purpose and I have not seen the Hamilton case for some time. The President : I might say : The sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I think we will have this question considered further. Mr. Whitelock: You will hear about it at Annapolis.... | |
 | Bennett Jonathan Loomis - 1915 - 226 pages
...lies." And oft with zeal she speaks of Him To dwellers in Jerusalem: While they return to Bethlehem. ' 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before." —Sir Walter Scott. VISIT OF THE MAGI. Matt. 11: 1. To Bethlehem, led by His star, Came wise men,... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...proud, AH plaided and plumed in their tartan2 array WIZARD Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ; For, e mirth and fun grew fast and furious : 145 The piper loud and louder blew, The danc ; 55 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I... | |
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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. 
