Cowper, Task

491. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. Campbell, Lochiel's Warning. There is no greater event in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progre of the character which draws them. Emerson, Domestic Life. 2. The consequence of anything; that in which an action, an operation, or a series of operations terminates; the i ue; conclusion; end. Of my ill-boding Dream Behold the dire Event. Congreve, Semele, iii. 8. My temporal concerns are slowly rectifying themselves; I am astonished at my own indifference to their event. Shelley, in Dowden, I. 409. One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. eventual