 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 690 pagine
...sun-awakened avalanche ! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth «t Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. PANTHEA.... | |
 | 1892 - 244 pagine
...science blessed. loosens it, and the mass of snow crashes down, so the gains of science gather slowly till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round Shaken to tlieir roots. And in this work, which is without haste, there is hope of rest, and hope of gain, and... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1894 - 394 pagine
...sun-awakened avalanche — whose mass Thrice sifted by the storm had gathered here, Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled,...round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. Coleridge's mountains of course adduce excellent arguments in favour of theism ; Byron's indulge... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1893 - 492 pagine
...ideas are the invisible, invincible forces that rule the world; and when in great and master minds Thought by thought is piled till Some great truth...and the nations echo round Shaken to their roots, it is vain to seek again to bind or to imprison it. It has become the property of the race ; years... | |
 | George Eliot - 1894 - 424 pagine
...finishing a quotation from Shelley (the comparison of the avalanche in his " Prometheus Unbound"),— " As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round.'' The entrance of the new-comers broke the fixity of attention, and called for a re-arrangement of seats... | |
 | George Eliot - 1894 - 414 pagine
...finishing a quotation from Shelley (the comparison of the avalanche in his " Prometheus Unbound "), — " As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round.'1 The entrance of the new-comers broke the fixity of attention, and called for a re-arrangement... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1895 - 376 pagine
...after everything has been said, it remains true that the world is ruled by its thinkers. — Seth Low. Thought by thought is piled, till some great truth...round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. — Percy Bi/mtlte Shelley. All that there is in what we call To-day is in the life of thought;... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pagine
...in So thin that life looks through and will break out. 0. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 118. A 9 3 51 now. p. SHELLEY — Prometheus Unbound. Act II. Sc. 3. Come near me ! I do weave A chain I cannot break... | |
 | 1900 - 436 pagine
...heaven and brought down new truth from the clouds. Says Shelley: "By heaven-defying minds, Thought on thought is piled till some great truth Is loosened,...the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots." As a matter of fact, all the great religions somewhere accord the highest honors to the man who defies... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1897 - 432 pagine
...Shelleyan aurora borealis. In the blank verse, as in the rhymed, we have a few starry points, as this : " As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round " ; And this : " Praxitelean shapes, whose marble smiles Fill the hushed air with everlasting love.... | |
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Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken... 
