 Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, When he might build him...  Self Culture - Stran 3211900Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 strani
...Pardoned in P Lattah Rooili. But the trail of the serpent is over them all. Jb., Paradise and Peri. The narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two Eternities. Jb., The Veiled Prophet, etc. Weep on, and as thy sorrows flow I'll taste the luxury of woe. Anacreontic.... | |
 | Bertha H. Buxton - 1879 - 266 strani
...figure. She did not resist. She did not remember. All she realised was the delicious present. " The narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities." " Can you wonder I arn anxious about you, and jealous of you, my beauty ? " he asked, carried away... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 strani
...high, rare, Ethereal virtue, which alone can breathe Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath ! Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This...hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high resting place ! But no — it cannot be, that one, whom God Has sent to break the wizard Falsehood's... | |
 | Horatio King - 1881 - 58 strani
...flowers, within the wide, wide sea Of our eternity." "Who that surveys this span of life we tread, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas— The...When he might build him a proud temple there? A name which long should hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high resting place." would be read... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 544 strani
...imitation of Paradise, and wss destroyed by lightning the flrbt lime ho attempted to entci them. — — W' Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, When...A name, that long shall hallow all its space, And bo each purer soul's high resting-place ! But no — it cannot be, that one, whom God Has sent to break... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 strani
...ADDISON — Cuto. Act V. So. 1. Eternity forbids thee to forget, t. 'Braos— Lara. Canto I. St. 23. For those who greatly think or bravely die ? j. POPE— Elegy on an Unfortunate Lad I. MOORE— Lotto. Rook-h. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. The time will come when every change shall... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 strani
...or imbecility of mind, from which he was released by death on the 26th of February, 1852. EXTRACTS. This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas — The past, the future, two eternities. Lalla Rookh. Go where glory waits thee ; But, while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me. The harp... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 strani
...to his pon. 8 Compare .Toliiinon. Tape 3l!i. * Compare Webster. Page 407. THOMAS MOORE. 1779-1852. This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! Laila Rooth. The Veiled Prophet of Khorauan. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear... | |
 | 1883 - 1322 strani
...span of earth wo press, This «peck of life in time's great wilderness. This narrow isthmus 'twist two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! Would sully the brischt spot, or leave it bare, When he mi^ht build him я proud temple there, A name, that Ions shall... | |
 | Irish birthday-book - 1884 - 300 strani
...of this privilege of Irish Birth, is the earnest prayer of MELUSINE. Junc 27, 1883. THE NEW YEAR. ' Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This...life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twîxt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot... | |
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