 | James Hinton - 1856 - 756 pages
...proved to be so, and showing them to be such by including them in the chain of causation : — * - Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eteniiiy.'— Shelley. [Note by printer.] This union of law of cause and effect, with God's direct... | |
 | 1879 - 592 pages
...dewdrops, sparkles toward itself," a phrase which recalls Shelley's famous passage a little further on : Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. The application, indeed, is there a little different ; but Shelley has just the same thought of the disappearance... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1875 - 496 pages
...overhangs the movement of life. Shelley expresses exactly a similar thought in a different image:— " Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity." In Goethe's description of the Falls of the Rhine, at Schaffhausen, we find the germ from which his... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1878 - 454 pages
..." The one remains, the many 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." And so what is there to be done ? What could be clearer ? Only... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 pages
...short summer — man a flower — He dies — alas 1 how soon he dies ! — DR. JOHNSON, Winter. — LIFE like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. — SHELLEY, Ado mm. — LIFE ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...? The One remains, the many 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 bo with that which thou dost seek! Follow... | |
 | Charles Van Norden - 1882 - 236 pages
...melancholy views of human existence. A whole volume of sadness is breathed into Shelley's -couplet — " Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity." Even the gentle Longfellow sings mournfully — -' Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares I " To one... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...1Л1. The One remains, tho many change and pass ; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; e dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, ami a suspici Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thon dost seek !... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1883 - 360 pages
...18. The One remains, the many 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 !... | |
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