 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...forgot To thank his tale, he wonder' d not, — The king had been an hour asleep. THE PROPHECY OF DANTE. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. CAMPBELL. DEDICATION. LADY ! if for the cold and cloudy clime Where I was born, but where I would not... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...To thank his tale, he wonder'd not, — The king had been an hour asleep. PROPHECY OF DANTE. 'Ti-, the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadowi before. CAMPBELL. DEDICATION. LADY ! if for the cold and cloudy clime Where I was born, but... | |
 | 1833 - 548 Seiten
...attain To something like prophetic strain ; and a more modern poet makes the wizard say to Lochiel ; 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. This prophetic power cannot extend to very distant events from the information of Satan ; and therefore... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 354 Seiten
...story. From evil keep you the high King of glory ! VOL. xi. s THE PROPHECY OF DANTE. ' Tis the (unset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." CAMPRELL. s 2 ['This poem which Lord Byron, in sending it to Mr. Murray, called " the best thing he... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...—Lochiel', Lochiel', beware of the day'! For', dark and despairing', my sight I may seal', Yet man cannot cover what God would reveal': Tis the sunset...tell thee', Culloden's dread echoes shall ring' With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king*. Lo'! anointed by heaven with the vials of wrath',... | |
 | 1845 - 778 Seiten
...: 1 Lochiel ! Lochiel ! Beware of the day ! For, dark and despairing, my sight 1 may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ! 'Tis the sunset...lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." The originals of this may certainly be found in the subjoined passage from MILTON, and the verses of... | |
 | 1848 - 780 Seiten
...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 Armstrong - 1834 - 1040 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 Seiten
...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 sunset...tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the bloodhounds,' that bark for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by heaven with the vials of wrath.... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 Seiten
...array Seer. 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...tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the blood-hounds, that bark for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by heaven with the vials of wrath,... | |
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Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 
