 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath be r 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... | |
 | Phrenology - 1882 - 688 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, glow* divinely there." 25-2 THE WITCH-MARK. 253 THE WITCH-MARK. CHAPTER I. 11 O, I have suffered With... | |
 | Ermine Owen - Readers - 1891 - 306 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 ? With thee, sweet Hope, resides... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 578 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. . . . Primeval Hope, the Aonian Muses say, When Man and Nature mourned their first decay ; When every... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 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... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 234 pages
...More pleasing seems than all the past hath been." Face brighter, W. to L. Ret. and L. waved to HOB "And every form that fancy can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there. " Prep. and L. to AOB and then PDOB, W. to R. Adv., RI half pointing P. and half V., wrist well down... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 468 pages
...life's unmeasured 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. What potent spirit guides the raptured 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... 
