| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As... | |
| 1834 - 182 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloonij The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime.... | |
| J H Hedley - 1836 - 352 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to .sweep Adown the gulph of Time! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime!... | |
| 1836 - 352 pagine
...dead body of the half-bred rolled at her feet ! J. п. н. o. THE DISMAL MAN. (For the Parterre.) " The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan." CAMPBELL. JEREMIAH NIGHTSHADE was born in a dull, back street in London, just at daybreak, before the... | |
| 1837 - 474 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of time : I saw the last of human mould That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength...that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the hrands Still rusted in their hony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom. The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep. That gave my spirit strength...that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the hrands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pagine
...shall melt in gloom I The sun itself shall die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality. 2, 1 saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength...Adown the gulf of time; I saw the last of human mould, Tha' shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw the prime. 3. The sun's eye had a sickly glare ; The... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength...sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mold, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The svin's eye had a sickly glare,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pagine
...terminated his career, and wanted but little of leaving his bones to bleach on the arid sands : — ' The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.' Surely this little episode is given with admirable ease, simplicity, and energy. ' I turned off the... | |
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