 ... repose; Or where some holy, aged oak, A stranger to the woodman's stroke, From the high rock's aerial crown, In twisting arches bending down, Bathes in the smooth pellucid stream, Full oft he waits the mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood,...  The British Essayists: The Observer - Page 37by Alexander Chalmers - 1802Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1787 - 342 pages
...affiftance of this auguft perfonage muft be duly folicited. Accordingly, the Poem opens with a fine addrefs to the " Voice divine," the Power of Poetry. Go forth, invoked, O Voice divine ! And hTue from thy facred fhrine ! Go, fearch each folitude around Where Contemplation may be found, &c.... | |
 | William Hamilton, Thomas Park - 1805 - 138 pages
...mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood, And of the all-prevailing good. Go forth invok'd, O voice Divine! And issue from thy sacred shrine ;...solitude around, Where Contemplation may be found, Where'er apart the goddess stands With lifted eyes and heaven-rais'd hands ; If rear'd on Speculation's... | |
 | William Hamilton, Thomas Park - 1808 - 272 pages
...mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood, And of the all-prevailing good. Go forth hivok'd, O voice Divine! And issue from thy sacred shrine;...solitude around, Where Contemplation may be found, Where'er apart the goddess stands With lifted eyes and heaven-rais'd hands • If rear'd on Speculation's... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood, And of the all-prevailing good. Go forth invok'd, O voice divine! And issue from thy sacred shrine ;...solitude around, Where Contemplation may be found, Where'er apart the goddess stands With lifted eyes and heaven-rais'd hands y If rear'd on speculation's... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...holds better suited to a rational, and still more to a philosophical spirit. He must be aided in this high exercise by Contemplation, and the assistance...the ' Voice divine/ the power of poetry: Go forth, invok'd, O Voice divine! And issue from thy sacred shrine; Go, search each solitude around Where Contemplation... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 266 pages
...Full oft he waits the mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood, And of the all prevailing good. Go forth invoked, O voice divine! And issue from thy...solitude around, Where Contemplation may be found, Where'er apart the goddess stands With lifted eyes and heaven-raised hands; If rear'd on Speculation's... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 260 pages
...Full oft he waits the mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood, And of the all prevailing good. Go forth invoked, O voice divine ! And issue from...solitude around, Where Contemplation may be found, Where'er apart the goddess stands With lifted eyes and heaven-raised hands ; If rear'd on Speculation's... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 346 pages
...holds better suited to a rational, and still more to a philosophical spirit. He must be aided in this high exercise by Contemplation, and the assistance...but properly received and attended ; and therefore a Qompany of various but suitable associates are invited ; Bring Faith, endued with eagle eyes, That... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...Full oft he waits the mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood, And of the all-prevailing good. Go forth invoked, O voice divine ! And issue from thy sacred shrine. » • • • • Ascending heaven's height, Contemplation, take thy flight : Behold the sun, through... | |
 | William Hamilton, James Paterson - 1850 - 238 pages
...mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood, And of the all-prevailing good. Go forth invok'd, O voice divine And issue from thy sacred shrine ;...solitude around, Where Contemplation may be found, Where'er apart the goddess stands With lifted eyes and heaven-rais'd hands; If rear'd on Speculation's... | |
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