 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
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 strani
...the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. Gajt. This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two etvrnlties! Moore. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1893 - 486 strani
...of Khorassan" are more familiar, and they may have been inspired by Cowley. Life is depicted as : " This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities." taught me that the only friends that we can call our own — that can know no change — are those... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Kenneth Deighton - 1893 - 234 strani
...but as a shallow sandbank to the ocean of eternity. The Cl. Pr. Edd. aptly quote Moore's lines, "A narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities." shoal is Theobald's correction of ' schoole,' which some editors retain in its literal sense, explaining... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1895 - 874 strani
...rare, " Ethereal virtue, which alone can breathe " Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath. " Who that surveys this span of earth we press, —•...boundless seas, " The past, the future, two eternities 1 — "Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, "When he might build him a proud temple there,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 strani
...CovfL.si—Davideis. Bk. IL 360. That golden key, That opes the palace of eternity. /. MILTON — Comus. L. 13. ing. Vol. IV. St. 2. The primrose opes its eye, And...j. ELIZA COOK — Christmas Tide. "(Three bunches ! g. MOOBK — Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. St. 42. The time will come when every... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 strani
...zur Erklarnng die bekaunten Verse Moores dienen, in denen er das menschliche Leben schildert als A narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities. Von diesem Standpunkte aus lassen sich die Traume, mogen sie uns Vergangenes oder Zukiinftiges vor... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 strani
...span of life in time's vast wilderness, This narrow isthmus twixt two boundless seas. The past and future,— two eternities,— Would sully the bright...bare, When he might build him a proud temple there; And when he dies, might leave a glorious name, A light, a landmark, on the cliffs of fame ? " — Ttiomas... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 strani
...span of life in time's vast wilderness, This narrow isthmus twixt two boundless seas. The past and future, — two eternities, — Would sully the bright...bare, When he might build him a proud temple there; And when he dies, might leave a glorious name, A light, a landmark, on the cliffs of fame?" — Thomas... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 strani
...war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains. On the Entry of the Auttrians into Naples, 1821. This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, — two eternities ! Lalla Eookk. The Veiled Prophet of Ehoraaan. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 strani
...Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last. Davideis, Bk. IA COWLEY. This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This...boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! I .nil" Kookh : The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. T. MOORE. And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
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