 The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.  The North British Review - Page 621866Full view - About this book
 | Johann Gottlieb Fichte, William Smith - 1845 - 258 pages
...around and about us, bearing us and all finite things onward to new life and love and beauty. "The ONE remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light...many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments." All death in nature is birth, — the assumption of a new garment,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness, is that enchanting one of Shelley's in the Adonais : — Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. X __ . I multiply these particulars in order to impress upon the reader's mind the great importance... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness, is that enchanting one of Shelley's in the Adonais :— Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. The happiest instance I remember of imaginative metaphor, is Shakspeare's moonlight "sleeping" on a... | |
 | William Smith - 1846 - 170 pages
...around and about us, bearing us and all finite things onward to new life and love and beauty. " The ONE remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light...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." All... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...Adonais is, why fear we to become ! The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven'slight for e ver shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of...many-coloured 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...bitter wind Seek shelter in the shadow of the lomb. What AdoHais is, why fear we to become ! tn. The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly; iLife, like a dome of many-color'd glass, I Stains the while radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples... | |
 | William Smith - 1848 - 218 pages
...flows around and about us, bearing us and all finite things onward to new life, love, and beauty. " The ONE remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light...many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments." All Death in nature is Birth,—the assumption of a new garment,... | |
 | Johann Gottlieb Fichte - 1848 - 572 pages
...flows around and about us, bearing us and all finite things onward to new life, love, and beauty. " The ONE remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light...many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments." All Death in nature is Birth, — the assumption of a new garment,... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1868 - 288 pages
...obligations, given habitually, are what win- and preserve the heart and secure comfort." — Sir H. Davy. " Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity." — Shelley. " A man's life is an appendix to his heart." — South. " Live as long as you may, the... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1848 - 478 pages
...widely dissimilar from the mysticism and absurdity which at other times he revelled in. For example : " Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments." The year 1821 was passed by Shelley partly at Rome, and partly... | |
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