 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 páginas
...comes To dress them, and unswaddle death ! . '•^ _ "r**3. l THE WORLD. Eternity the other night, a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright ; round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres a vast shadow mov'd ; in which... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 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, Lake a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 474 páginas
...coming of a storm from the quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest fantasy and expression. THE WORLD. "I saw Eternity the other...Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Lake a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd." There is a wonderful magnificennce... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 páginas
...into glory peep. " — Beyond the Veil. A little poem on The World is written in the same tone — " 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 mov'd. " And CRASHAW, in his lines to St. Theresa, expresses... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 482 páginas
...coming of a storm from the quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the rinest fantasy and expression. THE WORLD. " I saw Eternity the other...light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath i. , Time in hours, days, yean, Driv'n by the spheres Ijke a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world... | |
 | 1884 - 662 páginas
...Take this opening of a poem called " The World " : "I saw Eternity the other night; Like a great King of pure and endless light; All calm as it was bright...Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres In a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled." This is the solemn background... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1886 - 416 páginas
...evidently riveted the attention of the author of the ' Horae Subsecivae,' a work of very great interest : I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of...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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1886 - 568 páginas
...serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna ! come, let's go a Maying. AJ. Herrick ccxciv A VISION 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 hurl'd.... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1887 - 416 páginas
...which his mind naturally expands itself and seems most at home. Take this opening of a poem called "The World:"— " I saw Eternity the other night ;...Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres In a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd." This is the solemn background... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1887 - 502 páginas
...written as he wrote in the famous poem referred to in the text, or as in the magnificent opening of " The World " — " I saw Eternity the other night,...pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright," there would be much more to say of him. But he is not master of the expression suitable to his noble... | |
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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, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled. 
