 | Ambrose Bierce - 2010 - 438 ページ
..."Deshabille." Presentiment ] The verse is a parody of "Lochiel's Warning" by Thomas Campbell (17771844): "'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, / And coming events cast their shadows before." Preside ] Another of AB's grammatical bugbears. See WR 52-53: "'Professor Swackenhauer presided at... | |
 | Good housekeeping - 2003 - 336 ページ
...we lift the future's sable shroud!" "Fortune is merry, And in this mood will jjive us anything." " 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." "This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin." "Who can answer where any road leads to?" "There... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 ページ
...to know whose remains it contained. On coming to the 1 Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), Scottish poet. "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, and coming events cast their shadows before," from the poem "Lochiel's Warning" (1801). 2 Shakespeare, Macbeth HI.ii.23, "Duncan is in his grave;... | |
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Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 
