 | George Saintsbury - 1887 - 530 páginas
...or as in the magnificent opening of " The World " — " I saw Eternity the other night, Like a gnat ring of 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... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1888 - 396 páginas
...all of them collectively and every one singly, find comfort and assurance in the poet's words — " I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright. True light shows the way, The way, which from this drear and dark abode, Leads up to God. " A way where... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1889 - 394 páginas
...bravest, you confess ! 1 Syrian Maid, the Church, under figure of Rachel 2 forced, compelled CXXXI THE WORLD I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great...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.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1889 - 394 páginas
...confess ! 1 Syrian Maid, the Church, under figure of Rachel "' forced, compelled CXXXI THE WORLD ISAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure...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.... | |
 | 1890 - 392 páginas
...What touches of Nature, close to fact, or idealized by the poet's ever-vivid imagination, are here ! 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 hnrl'd.... | |
 | Thomas Powel, Sir Isambard Owen, Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore - 1890 - 598 páginas
...Eternity, so imaginative and so powerful that I hardly know where, in literature, to look for its equal : 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 huri'd.... | |
 | 1891 - 542 páginas
...lines from Vaughan's view of life here and hereafter will serve to show that he trod on higher paths. 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. The guiding spirit of Herbert is manifest in the Silex... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1891 - 408 páginas
...sorrow flee, And those that weary are of light, find rest in thee. J. Norn's of Bemertou CI. .J VISION \ saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of...And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like avast shadow moved ; in which the World And all her train were hurl'd.... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1892 - 1028 páginas
...Bach and Heinecke, given by the brass band, which ended the exercises. 5° THE REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. I saw eternity the other night, Like a great ring...And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driven by spheres. Like a vast shadow mov'd. — VAUGHAN. To the Board of Trustees. GENTLEMEN : —... | |
 | Emma Forbes Cary - 1893 - 294 páginas
...BACON. January 8. The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent bear it away. MATTHEW xi. 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.... | |
| |
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. 
