 | 1851 - 650 pages
...part of the language itself. We will refer to two instances only. With respect to the lines, — " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before?' — the following anecdote is preserved. The happy thought first presented itself to his mind the previous... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...fantasies overleap Nature's boundaries, and who declares that " Man cannot cover what God would reveal ; Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." There is a mysterious solemnity in all he utters, as if his voice was only the response of an internal... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - 328 pages
...popularity which the following sentiment of the poet has gained, shows how well known is this truth — " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." Reason does not forbid, on the contrary it encourages us to believe that angels are constantly around... | |
 | 1851 - 642 pages
...the whole, as that beautiful oouplet in Campbell's " Lochiel" ominously crowded on my memory. 'tTis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." I could not account for the oppressive silence, for often before had I reclined at the foot of some... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1851 - 684 pages
...of the language itself. We will refer to two instances only. With respect to the lines, — " "Pis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before" — the following anecdote is preserved. The happy thought first presented itself to his mind the previous... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1852 - 656 pages
...images, or conveyed a beautiful idea in more pure and striking metaphor. His wellknown image — " Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before " — is perhaps the most perfect and unmixed metaphor in the CHAP, English language. His genius was... | |
 | 1852 - 672 pages
...luix., pt. ip 14.] " Coming Events cast their Shadows before."— Where does this couplet occur? •• 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. And coming events cast their shadows before." EG [This couplet is from Campbell's " Lochiel's Warning."] St. Christopher. — Fosbroke says, " the... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...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 fer thy fugitive king.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 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 events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread eehoes shall ring With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive King.... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1853 - 314 pages
...popularity which the following sentiment of the poet has gained, shows how well known is this truth — " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." Reason does not forbid, on the contrary it encourages us to believe that angels are constantly around... | |
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Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 
