 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...vouchsafed from the spiritual world, of strange and frightful portent — " A meteor of the night of distant years That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld Musing at midnight upon prophecies." This visit enabled Hugh to view in the forest of Corrychalgan the last remains of that arboreous condition... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...eyeball.—Yesterday his name Was mighty on the earth. To-day—'t is what? The meteor of the night of distant years, That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld, Musing at midnight upon prophecies, Who at her lonely lattice saw the gleam Point to the mist-poised shroud, then quietly Closed her pale... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 430 pages
...the mast of some great ammiral." Hugh Miller, referring to the Forest of Corrybhalgan, says:—" It was but a shred of its former self, but the venerable...inaccessible hollows; and it was interesting to mark, when they encroached on the open waste, how thoroughly they lost the ordinary character of the Scotch... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 612 pages
...mast of some great ammiral." Hugh Miller, referring to the forest of Corrybhalgan, says : — " It was but a shred of its former self ; but the venerable...inaccessible hollows ; and it was interesting to mark, when they encroached on the open waste, how thoroughly they lost the ordinary character of the Scotch... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1855 - 408 pages
...Yesterday his name Was mighty on the earth. — To-day — 'tis what ? The meteor of the night of distant years, That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld, Musing at midnight upon prophecies, Who at her lonely lattice saw the gleam Point to the mist-poised shroud, then quietly Closed her pale... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 368 pages
...vouchsafed from the spiritual world, of strange and frightful portent — "A meteor of the night of distant years That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld Musing at midnight upon prophecies." This visit enabled Hugh to view in the forest of Corrychalgan the last remains of that arboreous condition... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 340 pages
...vouchsafed from the spiritual world, of strange and frightful portent — " A meteor of the night of distant years That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld Musing at midnight upon prophecies." This visit enabled Hugh to view in the forest of Corrychalgan the last remains of that arboreous condition... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1860 - 328 pages
...eyeball.—Yesterday his name Was mighty on the earth.—To-day—'tis what ? The meteor of the night of distant years, That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld, Musing at midnight upon prophecies, Who at her lonely lattice saw the gleam Point to the mist-poised shroud, then quietly Closed her pale... | |
 | 1865 - 418 pages
...Yesterday his name Was mighty on the earth. — To-day — 't is what ? The meteor of the night of distant years, That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld, Musing at midnight upon prophecies, Who at her lonely lattice saw the gleam Point to the mist-poised shroud, then quietly Closed her pale... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1870 - 296 pages
...eyeball.—Yesterday his name Was mighty on the earth.—To-day—'tis what? The meteor of the night of distant years, That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld, Musing at midnight upon prophecies, Who at her lonely lattice saw the gleam Point to the mist-poised shroud, then quietly Closed her pale... | |
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Was mighty on the earth ; to-day, 'tis — what ? The meteor of the night of distant years, That flashed unnoticed, save by wrinkled eld, Musing at midnight upon prophecies, Who at her lonely lattice saw the gleam Point to the mist-poised shroud, then... 
