...there; On no smooth sphere the restless seasons slide, No circling motion doth swift time divide ; Nothing is there To come, and nothing Past, But an eternal Now does always last. There sits th' Almighty, First of all, and End, Whom nothing but Himself can comprehend ; Who with...

...that he comprehends infinite duration in every moment ; that eternity is with him a punctum staru, a fixed point ; or, which is as good sense, an infinite...past or to come: to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley 20 alludes in his description of heaven. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal...

...that they have a reality to the Divine mind. Again, there are some who talk of an Eternal Now : — " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an Eternal Now does ever last." These lines of Cowley embody, as definitely as can be done, a view which was countenanced...

...eternity : — On no smooth sphere the restless seasons slide, No circling motion does swift time divide, Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an Eternal Now daet always last. (Davideis, hook i.). On me, when boy, there came what then I call'd In my boy phrase...

...condemned, and passing into the hands of the master of the high works was in due course suspended." (6)' " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last." In both cases we shall find a certain kernel of truth, round which a whole tissue of romance has been...

...telling us, that he comprehends infinite duration in every moment ; that eternity is with him a punctum stans, a fixed point ; or, which is as good sense,...past or to come: to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley 20 alludes in his description of heaven. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal...

...and thoughtfully, will lift the soul out of the smaller life of human care that is of selfish aims, 1 [Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an Eternal Now does always last. Cairley. — ED.l bounded by seventy years, into the greater, the limitless life which has been going...

...harmony Through all tKu compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man." The Learned:— " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last." — Cffw A now, that lasts ! that is, an instant, which continues during successive Instants : an eternal...

...Time. His time's forever, everywhere his place. e. ABRAHAM COWLEY — Friendship in Absence. St. 3. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. d. ABRAHAM COWLEY — Davideis. Bk. I. L. 361. Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd,...

...can find. On no smooth sphere the restless seasons glide, No circling motion doth the time divide ; Nothing is there to come and nothing past, But an eternal Now doth always last. Davideis, Bk. i. lines 347-352, 359-362. in his immeasurable and inconceivable greatness;...