...Gods, new laws receive, Bright or dim are they, as the robes they last On Death's bare ribs had cast. A power from the unknown God ; A Promethean conqueror came ; Like a trinmphal path he trod The thorns of death and shame. A mortal shape to him Was like the vapour dim...

...gods, new laws, receive: Bright or dim ara they, as the robes they last On Death's bare ribs had cast. A Power from the unknown God, A Promethean Conqueror,...trod The thorns of death and shame. A mortal shape to hun Was like the vapour dim Which the orient planet animates with light. Hell, sin, and slavery, came,...

...rose alike as a poet and a thinker that we quote what must be well known to all our readers : — ' A power from the unknown God, A Promethean conqueror,...Mahomet Arose, and it shall set : While, blazoned as in heaven's immortal moon, The cross leads generations on.' It has not been our purpose to criticize...

...conqueror came ; Like a triumphal path he trod The thorns of death and shame. A mortal shape to him 213 Was like the vapour dim Which the orient planet animates...tame, Nor preyed, until their Lord had taken flight; tKi The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set : While blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon The cross...

...that fine chorus from the ' Hellas,' one of Shelley's latest works, the chorus I mean opening thus — A power from the unknown God, A Promethean conqueror...triumphal path, he trod The thorns of death and shame. Anxious, however, perhaps over-anxious, to inculcate, or as somebody once phrased it, to tread the...

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...gods, new laws, receive : Bright or dim are they, as the robes they last On Death's bare ribs had cast. A Power from the unknown God.' A Promethean Conqueror,...slavery, came, '^ Like bloodhounds mild and tame, Nbr preyed until their lord had taken flight. ', , , The moon of Mahomet ^ , Arose, and it shall set...

...us was, after all, only one of those Theophanies with which the Old Testament makes us acquainted. "A mortal shape, to Him Was like the vapour dim Which the orient planet animates with light." As speculation advanced, the Christian facts one by one disappeared or were etherealized into something...

...gods, new laws, receive : Bright or dim are they, as the robes they last On Death's bare ribs had cast. A Power from the unknown God. A Promethean Conqueror,...and slavery, came, Like bloodhounds mild and tame, N\ir preyed until their lord had taken flight. The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set : While,...

...gods, new laws receive ; Bright or dim are they, as the robes they last On Death's bare ribs had cast. A power from the unknown God, A Promethean conqueror...death and shame. A mortal shape to him Was like the vapor dim Which the orient planet animates with light. Hell, Sin, and Slavery came, Like bloodhounds...