 The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.  Littell's Living Age - Page 4631861Full view - About this book
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 382 pages
...Shakspeare or Milton, for the extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness in this imagination : Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. The difference between my own feelings while leaving Honolulu now, in improved health and spirits,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life. — Pope. Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, Until death tramples it to atoms. Shelley. What's Life? at best a wandering breath; When saddest, but a passing sigh; When happiest,... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 pages
...pellucid, but rather, as the title indicates, tinctured with imperfections. Life is many-hued, — " Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity." The purest are not immaculate ; the impure, though doubledyed with guilt, have some tinge of humanity... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1854 - 450 pages
...idea is beautifully worked out by Shelley, in his AdonBis : — " Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments." to death, — the largest sacrifice to the Cain-spirit of Mahomet the Conqueror's law, that the Ottoman... | |
 | Harry Penciller - 1854 - 304 pages
...Some such idea had Shelly, perhaps, when he wrote so beautifully, " Life, like a dome of many colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments." II. OFR garden lies upon the southern hill-side, convenient to the house, and from its favorable exposure... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd CREASY - 1854 - 450 pages
...idea is beautifully worked out by Shelley, in his Adonais :— " Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragmeuta." to death, — the largest sacrifice to the Cain-spirit of Mahomet the Conqueror's law,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 pages
...LII. The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadow! fly; Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death...fragments. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek ! Follow where all is fled ! — Rome's azure sky, Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 474 pages
...LIT. The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death...fragments. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek ! Follow where all is fled ! — Rome's azure sky, Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadow? fly; Life, like a dome of many-co\oured glass, VOL. rv. 7 Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death...fragments. — Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dort seek ! Follow where all is fled ! — Rome's azure sky, Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly t Life, like a dome of many-colour'd glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Die, If thou won I dst be with that which thou dost seek i Follow where all is fled !— Rome's azure sky, Flowers,... | |
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