 O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and...  Galleries of Literary Portraits - Page 45by George Gilfillan - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 608 pages
...opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on it< friends, with kindred eye : For out of Thought's interior...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. " Tluiae Tempki grew at prows the great, Art night obey, but not surpass. 'I'll- pcasive Matter lent... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with haste her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. And Morning opes with haste her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat, These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his... | |
 | William Swinton - 1888 - 686 pages
...proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opes with haste her lids 35 454 O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his... | |
 | Charles Carroll Everett - 1888 - 336 pages
...with her creations. Thus the poet can write of the temples that the imagination has reared : — " And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." | We may here distinguish between the imagination and the fancyV The imagination follows the lines... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1888 - 348 pages
...birth. Of these the poet could say (what may not be said of the railway or the telegraph) that — " Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." And even those discoveries and inventions of which Science claims the credit could never have been... | |
 | Thomas C. Evans - 1888 - 284 pages
...he might have added the bridge, and declared that when its rugged pillars rose out of the tides, " Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." JOHN RANDOLPH. A kinswoman of John Randolph of Roanoke recites in a recent number of the Current a... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...these holy piles. Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone; And Morning opes with haste her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his... | |
 | 1890 - 848 pages
...past or the past into the present. For example, take Emerson's familiar lines from " The Problem" : "And Nature gladly gave them place. Adopted them into...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Throwing this into the present tense, we should have: "And Nature gladly gives them place, Adopts them... | |
 | William Lefroy - 1891 - 324 pages
...Bernardus valles — monies Benedictus amabat." distant purple moor, seems to have been always there. " O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." And yet this is not, after all, the church of Walter 1'Espec and of William and Waltheof. If we look... | |
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