| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
| John Armstrong - 1834 - 1040 pagine
...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 pagine
...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,... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pagine
...day'! For', dark and despairing', my sight I may seal', Yet man cannot cover what God would reveal': Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore', And coming events cast their shadows before'. I tell thee', Culloden's dread echoes shall ring' With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king*.... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pagine
...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. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the blood-hounds, that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 pagine
...of the day ! -r, dark and despairing, my«ight I may seal, man cannot cover what God would reveal : 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the bloodhounds,' that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pagine
...the day, For dark and despairing, my sight 1 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. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king.... | |
| |