 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 852 pages
...life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-diseover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And every form, that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ; And every form, that Fancy can repair...From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity? Can Wisdom lend, with all her... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Children's Literature, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been; And every form that fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 234 pages
...life's unmeasured way, Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been; And every form that fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...unmeasured way ; , Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And every form, that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there." The sweet idyllic style of Gertrude of Wyoming is peculiarly happy,—the description of the paradisiacal... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...life's unmeasured way , Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And every form, that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. * # * With thee, sweet Hope ! resides the heavenly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...life's unmeasur'd way, Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And every form, that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. —Campbell: "The Pleasures of Hope!' CXV.—GRATITUDE. THERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the... | |
 | James Sully - Dreams - 1881 - 444 pages
...richest harvest. "Thus, from afar, each dim disoover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath .been ; And every form, that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there." The recurring emotions, the ruling aspirations, find objects for themselves in this veiled region.... | |
 | James Sully - Dreams - 1881 - 392 pages
...harvest. "Thus, from afar, each dim discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath boon ; And every form, that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there." The recurring emotions, the ruling aspirations, find objects for themselves in this veiled region.... | |
 | James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ; And ev'ry form that fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend, with all her... | |
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Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath... 
