 | John Dove - 1832 - 116 pages
...heart. For, lady, you deserve this state ; Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found ; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song : then worms... | |
 | 1832
...Cowley, in which we are surprised with the following striking thought: ' But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.' ' The Character of Holland' is more likely to have proceeded from Marvell's satirical pen :— ' Holland,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845
...sparkling levity of the prelude and the solemn pathos that follows : — But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found ; Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song Till, at the... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - Periodicals - 1851
...For, lady, you deserve this state ; Xor would I love Ħit lower rate, But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Xor in thy murble vault shall sound My echoing eong : then worms... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1852
...a sort of prophetic truth, in his lines to ' The Coy Mistress : ' " " But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found ; Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song." ever written... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852
...poet Marvel expresses the vague apprehensions of this state, saying — " But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." Then, with another poet, he, who is involved in such perplexity, eiclaims, remonstrating with time... | |
 | James Caughey, Daniel Wise - Christian life - 1855 - 404 pages
...immortal till thy work is done. Can say, with the old poet Marvell, " But at my line],: I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." No, not "deserts," blessed be God! but fields and gardens of paradise, beneath unclouded skies. But... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 335 pages
...heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song : then worms... | |
 | Jane Williams - Authors - 1861 - 564 pages
...CHAPTER XVI. THE POETESSES. AD 1833— OCTOBER. Mary-Jane Jowsbury. ' But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." — ANDREW MARVEL. MARY-JANE JEWSBURY. MR. THOMAS JEWSBURY, a cotton-spinner and lacemaker who had... | |
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. 
