 | 1896 - 858 páginas
...at last, Through Memory's sunset air, Like mountain ranges overpast — In purple distance fair, 7. Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright. Study the following sentences, and write after each a brief quotation from any source, bearing on the... | |
 | John Holland - 1856 - 386 páginas
...Understand it if you can ; if not, turn for an example to ' The World,' in Cattermole's Selections : — ' I saw Eternity, the other night, Like a great ring...pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright !' There is nothing in poetry more perfect in its kind than this. I feel, when I read it, as though... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 páginas
...land." He then quotes a few fanciful lines with such praise as will probably surprise most readers : — I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, As calm as it was bright. entranced in Beatific Vision. Eter nity was never made so visible before... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 páginas
...land." He then quotes a few fanciful lines with such praise as will probably surprise most readers:— I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, As calm as it was bright. " There is," says Montgomery, "nothing more perfect iu its kind than this.... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1858 - 326 páginas
...judge I did not love thee. John, cap. 14. ver. 15. If ye love me, keep my commandments. The World. SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endlefs light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 370 páginas
...Without a steel, oh, let thy power clear Thy gift once more, and grind this flint to dust! THE WORLD. 1 I saw eternity the other night, Like a great ring...And round beneath it, time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 páginas
...Thy gift once more, and grind this flint to dust! THE WORLD. 1 I saw eternity the other night, Lake a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm,...And round beneath it, time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 páginas
...quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. THE WORLD. " I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...in which the world And all her train were hurl'd." There is a wonderful magnificence about this ; and what a Bunyan-Iike reality is given to the vision... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 470 páginas
...whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the rinest fantasy and expression. « THE WORLD. " I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath h, Time in hours, days, yean, Driv'n by the spheres lake a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 492 páginas
...quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest fantasy and expression. THE WORLD. "I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring...in which the world And all her train were hurl'd." There is a wonderful magnificennce about this ; and what a Bunyan-like reality is given to the vision... | |
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I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled... 
