The One remains, the many change and pass : Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. The National Review - Page 360edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...to become i The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven'slight forevershines, Earth'sshadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains...of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek! Follow where all is fled ! — Rome's azure... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...time.s decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. ***** Life, like a dome ofmany-color.d glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. * * * * My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were... | |
| Christianity - 1842 - 750 pages
...spiritual being is alone substantial and enduring, and all besides but fleeting cloud and shadow — that " The one remains, the many change and pass ;...of eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments." • "Though we may not venture on details, I think we may be bold to say that Scripture hints at a... | |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte, William Smith - Learning and scholarship - 1845 - 258 pages
...around and about us, bearing us and all finite things onward to new life and love and beauty. "The ONE remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light...of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments." All death in nature is birth, — the assumption of a new garment, to replace the old vesture which... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness, is that enchanting one of Shelley's in the Adonais : — Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. X __ . I multiply these particulars in order to impress upon the reader's mind the great importance... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness, is that enchanting one of Shelley's in the Adonais :— Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. The happiest instance I remember of imaginative metaphor, is Shakspeare's moonlight "sleeping" on a... | |
| William Smith - Philosophers - 1846 - 170 pages
...change and pass; Heaven's light for ever shines; Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments." All death in nature is birth,—the assumption of a new garment, to replace the old vesture which humanity... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...times decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. ****** Life, like a dome of many-colour'd glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. ***** My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...Adonais is, why fear we to become ! The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven'slight for e ver shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of...of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek! Follow where all is fled ! — Rome's azure... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 384 pages
...— the many pass away — Heaven's light for ever shines, earth's shadows flyLife, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments. And yet, speaking of Adonais, a contemporary critic, no more capable of appreciating it than a penny-a-liner... | |
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