 | 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."... | |
 | 1907 - 516 pages
...eu hunain a barodd i Henry Vaughan, y Siluriad, draethu ei len yn y geiriau hynod hynny o'i eiddo : I saw eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...And round beneath it. Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, In which the world And all her train were hurl'd. Weithiau... | |
 | 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 - American periodicals - 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...And round 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."... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - English poetry - 1856 - 330 pages
...judge I did not love thee. John x iv. 15. If ye love me, keep my commandmeiUt. THE WORLD. I. I 9AW eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure...And round beneath it, time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Holland - 1856 - 386 pages
...Understand it if you can ; if not, turn for an example to ' The World,' in Cattermole's Selections : — ' I saw Eternity, the other night, Like a great ring...pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright !' There is nothing in poetry more perfect in its kind than this. I feel, when I read it, as though... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 pages
...land." He then quotes a few fanciful lines with such praise as will probably surprise most readers:— I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, As calm as it was bright. " There is," says Montgomery, "nothing more perfect iu its kind than this.... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 pages
...land." He then quotes a few fanciful lines with such praise as will probably surprise most readers : — I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, As calm as it was bright. entranced in Beatific Vision. Eter nity was never made so visible before... | |
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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, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd ; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. 
