| Jesse Olney - Readers - 1854 - 352 pages
...hope, repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. LESSON LXXIX. Ossiari's* Address to tJie Sun. 1. O THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of...everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...their dread abode; — There they alike in trembling hope repose. The bosom of his Father and his God. moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest above ! Who can be a companion of thy course 1 The oaks of the mountains fall : the mountains themselves... | |
| William Russell - 1855 - 310 pages
...Melancholy, united with Grandeur. 1. — [OssiAN's APOSTROPHE TO THE Sus/l — Macpherson. " O them that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers'...western wave. But thou thyself movest alone : who can bo a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with... | |
| Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...fairer than the ghosts of the hills, when it moves in a sunbeam at noon over the silence of Morven.b 2. O Thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest above ! who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves... | |
| Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...monotone has great force and dignity in pronouncing grave, solemn and sublime language. EXAMPLE. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, 0 Sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in... | |
| John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...feeble voice. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the' shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, 0 sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...And ever-musing Melancholy reigns, — What means this tumult in a vestal's vein* ? • 3. 0 ! tlion that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, — whence are thy beams, 0 Sun ! thy everlasting light 7 Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 pages
...Accession of the House of Hanover, and a prose translation of the Iliad. OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. O thou that rollest above, Round as the shield of...Sun ! Thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thine awful beauty ; The stars hide themselves in the sky ; The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English language - 1903 - 400 pages
...addressed to some particular person or thing. Ossian's address to the sun is an example : " O thou who rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers !...Whence are thy beams, O sun, thy everlasting light ? " Blanco White's sonnet on Night is an apostrophe, and Byron's address to the ocean in Childe Harold... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English language - 1903 - 394 pages
...addressed to some particular person or thing. Ossian's address to the sun is an example: " O thou who rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun, thy everlasting light ? " Blanco White's sonnet on Night is an apostrophe, and Byron's address to the ocean in Childe Harold... | |
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