The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown success ; That all the oracles are dumb or cheat Because they have no secret to express ; That none can pierce the vast black veil uncertain Because there is no light beyond... The Rice Institute Pamphlet - Page 1701916Full view - About this book
| 1880 - 812 pages
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| 1880 - 798 pages
...the adamantine never Encompassing her passionate endeavor, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : ' The sense that every struggle brings defeat, Because...can pierce the vast black veil uncertain, Because 'here is no light beyond the curtain, That all is vanity and nothingness. ***** ' The moving moon and... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...the adamantine Never Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because...the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic from her high throne in the north, That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...the adamantine Never Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because...the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic from her high throne in the north, That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity... | |
| Ernest Belfort Bax, James Leigh Joynes, F. Bland, Hubert Bland - 1883 - 650 pages
...friend-foe, piercing with the sabre That mighty heart of hearts ends bitter war. In her face he sees The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because...uncertain Because there is no light beyond the curtain ; But all is vanity and nothingness. Is this the expression on the face of humanity ? Does toiling... | |
| Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 392 pages
...defeat and blight, More desperate than strife with hope debarred, More fatal than the adamantine Never The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because...the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic from her high throne in the north, That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1888 - 698 pages
...the adamantine Never Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because...the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic from her high throne in the north, That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity... | |
| George Douglas - 1893 - 390 pages
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| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...the adamantine Never Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because...express ; That none can pierce the vast black veil uncerta:n Because there is no light beyond the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 pages
...the adamantine Never Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because...express ; That none can pierce the vast black veil unccrta'n Because there is no light beyond the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic... | |
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