 | Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 632 pàgines
...Hope and fear, alternate, fway'd his breaft ; " Like light and fhade upon a waving field, " Courfmg each other, when the flying clouds « Now hide, and now reveal, the Sun." Here the analogy is remarkably perfect ; not only between light and hope, and between darknefs and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1808 - 496 pàgines
...cachent le soleil ettantôtlui oient son voile (i). (i) — Hope and fear, alternate, sway'el hisbreast, Like light and shade upon a waving field, Coursing each other, when the flying clouds Now bide, and now reveal the sim. L'analogie est parfaite : non -seulement entre la lumière et l'esperance... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 pàgines
...tragedies, appears to me to unite almoft every excellence : " Hope and fear, alternate, sway'd bis breast ; " Like light and shade upon a waving field,...flying clouds " Now hide, and now reveal, the Sun." Here the analogy is remarkably perfect ; not only between light and hope, and between darknefs and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 pàgines
...tragedies, appears to me to unite aimoft every excellence : " Hope and fear, alternate, sway'd his breast ; " Like light and shade upon a waving field,...each other, when the flying clouds " Now hide, and noifr reveal, tlie Sun." Here the analogy is remarkably perfect ; not only between light and hope,... | |
 | 1817 - 780 pàgines
...Hope anil fear, alternate, sw»y'd bis breast ; " Like light and shade upon a waving field, " Ceursing each other, when the flying clouds " Now hide, and now reveal, the sun." Here the analogy is remarkably perfect ; not only between light and nope and between darkness and fear... | |
 | 1820 - 376 pàgines
...occupy me now, " Whose breast hope and fear alternate swayed; Like light and shade upon a waving fiuUl, Coursing each other, when the flying clouds Now hide and now reveal the sun." But the paroxysms of fear had been so much stronger than those of hope, that his lordship's nervous... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1822 - 312 pàgines
...from one of Home's tragedies, seems to unite every excellence : Hope and fear alternate, sway'd his breast ; Like light and shade upon a waving field,...the flying clouds Now hide, and now reveal, the Sun. Here the analogy is perfect ; not only between Ught and hope, and between darkness and /ear,- but between... | |
 | John Home - 1822 - 446 pàgines
...thou doubt Still of his coming ? Orm. No, I think 'tis he ; But hope and fear alternate sway my mind : Like light and shade upon a waving field Coursing...the flying clouds Now hide and now reveal the sun of heaven. I tremble for the issue of the combat ; And if my lord should, as I hope, prevail, I tremble... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 pàgines
...uncertain of its future destiny, is natural and beautiful. " But hope and fear alternate sway my soul, Like light and shade upon a waving field, Coursing...the flying clouds Now hide, and now reveal the sun of heaven." It is difficult to conceive the same author, but a few pages after, writing such prosaic... | |
 | Henry Card - 1822 - 122 pàgines
...situation the beautiful imagery of the poet may be applied — " Hope and fear, alternate, sway'd his breast, Like light and shade upon a waving field, Coursing each other, where the flying clouds Now hide, and now reveal, the sun !" His patriotic wisdom, at length, overcame... | |
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Hope and fear alternate sway*d his breast; Like light and shade upon a waving field, Coursing each other, when the flying clouds Now hide, and now reveal, the sun. 
