 Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint nor sage could fix immutably The fluent image of the unstable Best, Still changing in their very hands that wrought...  The Atlantic Monthly - Stran 71870Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1870 - 574 strani
...our mortal veins. Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint...frost-landscapes on a window-pane. Meanwhile Thou smiledst inacessible, At Thought's own substance made a cage for Thought. And Truth locked fast with her own... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 strani
...our mortal veins. Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint...: To-day's eternal truth To-morrow proved Frail as frost- landscapes on a windowpane. Meanwhile Thou smiledst, inaccessible, At Thought's own substance... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 276 strani
...our mortal veins. Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint...smiledst, inaccessible, At Thought's own substance made atcage for Tlwusrht, , • : :-:. :' And Truth locked fast with her own masterkey; Nor didst Thou reck... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 strani
...our mortal veins. Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint...: To-day's eternal truth To-morrow proved Frail as trust-landscape* on a windowpane. Meanwhile Thou smiledst, inaccessible, At Thought's own substance... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 592 strani
...our mortal veins. Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; .Nor saint...fix immutably The fluent image of the unstable Best, ßtill changing in their very hands that wrought : To-day's eternal truth To-morrow proved Frail as... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 strani
...our mortal veins. Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less eartby, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint...smiledst, inaccessible. At Thought's own substance made л cage for Thought, And Truth locked fast with her own master-key ; Nor didst Thou reck what image... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1883 - 594 strani
...he, as well as the Deity, of whom he writes, careless of the bonds of our little systems, smiles " At Thought's own substance made a cage for Thought, And Truth locked fast with her own master-key." I suspect no little latent, insidious power of deception in the word " Nature," which our author would... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 484 strani
...our mortal veins. Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint...: To-day's eternal truth To-morrow proved Frail as frost- landscapes on a windowpane. Meanwhile Thou smiledst, inaccessible, At Thought's own substance... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 strani
...less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint nor sage couldfix immutably The fluent image of the unstable Best, Still...their very hands that wrought : To-day's eternal truth To-morrovr proved Frail as frost-landscapes on a windowpane. Meanwhile Thou smiledst, inaccessible.... | |
 | 1889 - 438 strani
...the lines, — " Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs; Nor saint...proved Frail as frost-landscapes on a window-pane. Idle who hopes with prophets to be snatched By virtue in their mantles left below ; Shall the soul... | |
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