| Thomas Campbell - 1806 - 220 pages
...dream ? Why do I joy the lonely spot to view, 465 By artless friendship bless'd when life was new ? Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd...fade. — When all the sister planets have decay'd ; 4/0 When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below;... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...combined, and the harmony and sublimity of their general effect, seems almost to defy competition itself. " Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime . • '..." When all the sister planets have decay'd; " When wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow, " And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below ; " Thou,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 568 pages
...more frequently, and on many accounts more justly admired, than the concluding lines of the poem. 1 Eternal Hope '. when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd...not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
...dream ? Why do I joy the lonely spot to view, By artless friendship bless'd when life was new ? • Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd...notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began—but not to fade.— When all the sister planets have decay'd; When wrapt in fire the realms... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Cities and towns - 1811 - 214 pages
...pleasing dream ? Why do I joy the lonely spot to view, By artless friendship bless'd when life was new ? Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd...— When all the sister planets have decay'd ; When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below ; Thou, undismay'd,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1812 - 160 pages
...PLEASURES or HOPE. Vhy do I joy the lonely spot to view, 5y artless friendship bless'd when life was new ? Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd...— When all the sister planets have decay'd ; When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below ; Thou, undismay'd,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1813 - 164 pages
...pleasing dream ? Why do I joy the lonely spot to view, By artless Friendship bless'd when life was new ? Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd...notes to sound the march of Time., Thy joyous youth began—but not to fade.— When all the sister planets have decay'd ; When wrapt in fire the realms... | |
| English literature - 1814 - 642 pages
...point out in any author a thought more truly sublime than that contained in the concluding lines:- — Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd...march of time ; Thy joyous youth began— but not to fadeWhen all the sister -planets have decay'd ; When wrapt in fire the realms of asihtr glow, And Heav'n's... | |
| 1822 - 440 pages
...joyous yonth hegan— hut not to ftde— " When aQ the sister planets have dccal'd ; "Wlien, wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow, "And Heaven's last thunder shakes the realms helow ; " Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile, "And light thy torch at nature's funeral... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1817 - 166 pages
...pleasing dream ? Why do I joy the lonely spot to view, By artless friendship bless'd when life was new ? Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd...— When all the sister planets have decay'd ; When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below ; Thou, undismay'd,... | |
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