 | 1895 - 794 pages
...the threshold of its struggle for existence, never beheld. THE PRISM. By John White Chad-wick. "Time, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity." SHELLEY, 'tis greatly said, — and yet I would That thou hadst been a century later born : Then with... | |
 | Charles William Macfarlane - 1885 - 110 pages
...in more ambitious mood, he seeks to convey an idea of the relation of life to eternity, he says : " Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity." Adonais. SHELLEY. or '' he coupleth the general notion "—life— "with the particular example"'—dome... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 pages
...— " Hast thou a drunken soul ? Thy bane is in thy shallow skull, not in my silver bowl!" 1( *Lifs, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity." Shelky's " Adonaifc" In mature years the essayist pays more regard to life about him, to the world... | |
 | Theodora Corrie - 1886 - 202 pages
...XXIX. " The one remains, the many change and pass, Heaven's light alone remains, earth's shadows flee. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity Until death shivers it to atoms. " — SHELLEY. ALL Mortimer mourned for the squire. The kindly, gentle... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...ETERNAL. HE 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! Follow... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 pages
...little life is rounded with a sleep." "This created whole books in me," says Richter. Shelley writes, " Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity." Such an expression causes us to think. We say, "There is truth in it, what does it mean?" But it is... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 pages
...another, though dissimilar? Hope will make thee young ; for Hope and Youth are children of one mother. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. JOHN HOWARD PAYNE (1792-1852) 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble,... | |
 | Florence Trail - 1888 - 342 pages
...unique and incapable of repetition ; it must stand alone and form a marked feature of that life that "Like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity." Many have detailed the campaigns of war, but the Commentaries of Caesar know no kindred. Senatorial... | |
 | Edward Atkinson - 1889 - 426 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 comes and shatters it to fragments." men of affairs are of the utmost beneficence, even... | |
 | William John Alexander - 1889 - 232 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 — Fifine is deserving of close study by any one who desires a clear view of Browning's philosophy.... | |
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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. 
