..."Adonais": 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. Comparisons, however, are unfair. If Patience cannot reach the height of the giants, her work is nonetheless...

...is hazy; the haze clouds whatever is alleged in its nonrecognition. Nature itself becomes a haze and "life, like a dome of many-colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity." But if Shelley had accounted for glass, domes, colors, for life itself, he would not have written those...

...Chogyam Trungpa Exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline. — Joseph Conrad Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Giving Your life has brought you closer to your friends. Yes, it has brought...

...not "forever shine" as "Earth's shadows fly," as Shelley had predicted; rather, "Life [or history], like a dome of many-colored glass,/ Stains the white radiance of Eternity (Adonais, 52. 460-462). It is the story of this "staining" of beauty which we have witnessed, while...

...Doubtless Shelley had no thought of literary criticism when he wrote the strangely luminous lines: Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, but he expressed a truth that is applicable here. The light of understanding and persuasion by which...

...sensuous To-Be-Known vs. the One Mind? Is the resolution of such polarities a sleep or an awakening? "Life, like a dome of manycolored glass / Stains the white radiance of Eternity." East, meet West. Is to stain to dye? Or the stigma of birth? Dialectic soon wearies me, but not the...

...the nature of the Buddha for each soul will be unique and will depend on the nature of the soul. So, Life like a dome of many-colored glass Stains the white radiance of eternity. To each of the two classes named above the one Buddha has his' characteristic form of appearance or...

...Adonais: 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 . . . That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things work and move, That...

...lonely places.' But he does not, of course, stop with nature, but seeks the higher unity behind it: Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity.21 In the highest ecstasy, all individuality and particularity are abolished by the great...

...though it is disturbing to find her attributing to Wordsworth the well-known tag from Shelley's Adonais: 'Life like a dome of many-colored glass / Stains the white radiance of eternity,' — and also to find her, as a letter in the 'New Republic' notes, changing 'white' to 'pale' — she...