 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 428publié par - 1904Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 pages
...be the sun, Thou 'It find me dressed, and on my way, Watching the break of thy great day. THE WORLD. 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.... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 436 pages
...be the sun, Thou 'It find me dressed, and on my way, Watching the break of thy great day. THE WORLD. 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.... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...Who looks upon thee from his glorious throne, And minds the covenant betwixt all and one. THE WORLD. 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.... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. " THE WORLD. " / saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of...bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, yearn, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd."... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1847 - 316 pages
...and judge I did not lore 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... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1847 - 318 pages
...and judge I did not lore 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...the finest phantasy and expression. " THE WORLD. " I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ting of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright...beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the sptieres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurVd." There is a wonderful... | |
 | 1903 - 666 pages
...shadow, but fails to trace, as is his wont, Wordsworth's own lines to their source in Vaughan :— And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd. с. и. в. "WATTMAN."—This term is employed in France to designate the engineer-driver of an electric... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...cares without thee ; let the heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. VAUGHAN. THE WORLD. 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.... | |
 | 1896 - 858 pages
...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... | |
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