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
| Literature - 1861 - 674 pages
...chanfle nnd pass, Heaven's light forever 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. — Die If thou wouldst be with that which thon dost seek, Follow where all is fled. — Home, azure... | |
| Anonymous - 1861 - 604 pages
...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. — Die If than wouldst be with that which thou dost seek, Follow where all is fled. — Borne, azure... | |
| 1862 - 348 pages
...the three Graces of elegiac poetry, uses this expression : " Life, like a dome of many-colored glasg, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments." — It was so with himself — it was so likewise with Keats. All his light was from below, and all... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...bitter wind Seek shelter in the shadow of the tomb. What Adouais is, why fear we to become? ZJL The One remains the many change and pass ; Heaven's light...glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Drath tramples it to fragments. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek f Follow... | |
| 1855 - 394 pages
...LII. The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Stains the white radiance 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... | |
| Henry Coppée - English language - 1866 - 396 pages
...delicate picture of life contrasted with the vastness of eternity; it forms a striking figure:— " Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity." And in its very vagueness it conveys a grand idea of existence in unlimited space. Sometimes a comparison... | |
| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 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. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek ! Follow where all is fled ! — Rome's... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
...still, and does not moulder under the sod of the Prussian churchyard. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. What journeys he travels, what toils he undergoes, what adventures he encounters, who makes mental... | |
| 1868 - 844 pages
...cannot find a nobler expression of this august and authoritative feeling than that of Shelley : The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light...of eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments. Shall we say, then, that mind is, in respect of change, the antithesis of matter, and that religion... | |
| Goold Brown - English language - 1862 - 362 pages
...change and pass ; Heaven's light forever 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. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek ! Follow where all is fled ! — Rome's... | |
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