 | Thomas Campbell - Poets, Scottish - 1850 - 514 pages
...name, Look proudly to heaven from the death -bed of fame ! " With respect to the often-quoted lines — "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events coat their thodoun before — * the following anecdote is preserved : — The happy thought first presented... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...shadowy abstractions — whose fevered fantasies overleap Nature's boundaries, and who declares that " Man cannot cover what God would reveal ; Tis the sunset...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 - Heaven - 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 forest... | |
 | Commercial travellers - 1909 - 448 pages
...public.fickleness with fortitude and reconciliation : — For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 'Tis the...lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. After dinner they smoked churchwarden pipes and drank ale out of tall-boys. Each had his allotted place... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...warriors Threw their cloaks and shirts of deerskin, Threw their weapons and their war gear. (b) For the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. (c) To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...overcome but half his foe. 1756 ' Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. 1. Line 648, FORESIGHT — see Futurity. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 1757 Campbell: Lochiel's Warning. Line 55 FOREST. Summer or winter, day or night, The woods are an... | |
 | Archibald McLean - Christian biography - 1912 - 344 pages
...he had some premonition of what was waiting him. It may be that he repeated Campbell's words : '« "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before." When the ship neared the island of Nukapu the bishop and his party got into a boat. Taking a few presents... | |
 | 1912 - 430 pages
...they were and the more repulsive in looks, the deeper were they endowed with mystic wisdom. " 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." The more profound the ignorance of a people, the stronger is the belief in supernatural influences.... | |
 | Gene Stratton-Porter - Brothers and sisters - 1913 - 634 pages
...agonizing pleading: "Laddie, Laddie, beware of the day! For, dark and despairing, my sight, I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal; Tis the sunset...lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." That scared me. I begged Leon to tell, but he wouldn't say a word more. He went and talked to Miss... | |
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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. 
