O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... The British Essayists;: Mirror - Page 68by Alexander Chalmers - 1807Full view - About this book
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...like verse ; but of no regular and determinate lengths, as the kind of verse doea not admit of it. "O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun I ihou everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in... | |
| Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...The tombs, And monumental caves of death, look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. 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... | |
| 1848 - 310 pages
...Gloom, or Melancholy, united with Grandeur. 1. — [OSSIAN'S APOSTEOPHB TO THE Sun.] — Macphersm. " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ' whence are thy heams, O sun ! thy everlasting light* Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty : the stars hide themselves... | |
| William Harvey Wells - 1848 - 252 pages
...state which makes it most difficult." — " Who wrote the letter ? " — " You wrong yourself." — " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! " Point out the pronouns in the foregoing sentences. Which of them are personal 1 Which relative... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...Gloom, or Melancholy, united with Grandeur. 1. — [OssiAn's APOSTROPHE TO THE SUN.] — Macpherson. " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty : the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...Gloom, or Melancholy, united with Grandeur. 1. — [Ossiis's APOSTROPHE TO THE SUN."] — Macpherson. "O thou that rollest, above, round as the shield of...everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty : the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... | |
| David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...Volcanoes. 57. Snowline among the Hiiumalehs, highest on northern side. 58. Explained. 59. Actinism. " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy heams, O Sun ' thy everlasting light ? Thou consest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide... | |
| 1850 - 492 pages
...the mind in their full force : — 216 "OUR FATUKIÏ WIIIOII AKT IN HEAVEN." — VALUE 01)' LABOUR. " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, О sun ! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...who can read, without admiration, his address to the Sun, — O thou that rollest above, round as tue shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou coinest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky : the moon, cold and pale,... | |
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