I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled... The Quarterly Review - Page 446edited by - 1907Full view - About this book
| Barrett Wendell - 1904 - 378 pages
...earth, the second concerning heaven. Of the world he writes : I saw Eternity the other night Like s. great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as...days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. Here is something like an intricate variation... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1904 - 382 pages
...from Vaughan, — the first concerning earth, the second concerning heaven. Of the world he writes : I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All <alm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, yean, Driv'n by the spheres, Like... | |
| William Ralph Inge - 1904 - 316 pages
...seek, but of Nothingness personified. We perhaps know and admire those verses of Henry Vaughan — "I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, As calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres,... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 306 pages
...pleasant Isle of Aves, to look at it once again. 32 18y. Charles Kingslcy. 242 LIFE'S PHILOSOPHY THE WORLD I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd ; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. 7 The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 pages
...thy young breath, Expecting till thy Saviour comes To dress them, and uns waddle death l THE WORLD. I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd ; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there... | |
| Michael H. Whitworth - 2001 - 270 pages
...'understood space-time'.20 The quotation from Henry Vaughan which she associated with spacetime — T saw eternity the other night / Like a great Ring of pure and endless light' — suggests that she was already familiar with the idea of a curved spacetime, and light travelling... | |
| Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.... What stranger miracles are there? — Walt Whitm I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...years Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurled. — Henry Vaughan Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions,... | |
| Ben Bova - 2002 - 482 pages
...adornments, but as practical and efficient materials for their starships as well. Book IV: To Seek I saw eternity the other night, Like a great ring...days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. Henry Vaughan The Lights in the Sky It was... | |
| Tina Beattie - 2002 - 240 pages
...Chernobyl superimpose a disturbing new layer of images on Henry Vaughan's poetic vision of eternity: I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of...And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train her hurl'd. In... | |
| Phillip Sipiora, James S. Baumlin - 2002 - 276 pages
...depiction (in the English Renaissance, surely) occurs in Henry Vaughan's mystic lyric, "The World": I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of...And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.... | |
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