 The Gods, who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting...  The Great Dionysiak Myth - Page 300by Robert Brown - 1877 - 18 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1884 - 806 pages
...loneliness of space satisfied with His own glory. The old pagan idea of the gods contained in Lucretius — Who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world,...sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm— This pagan idea we transfer to the living and true God. We imagine that He cannot have anything corresponding... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1884 - 362 pages
...ether. Tennyson has finely phrased Lucretius' doctrine of the void as the abode of the gods : — " The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never...sorrow mounts, to mar Their sacred everlasting calm." We must pause here a moment to observe that, however in fact the universe was or is made, it was not... | |
 | John Masson - 1884 - 292 pages
...and supremely idle in a stormless, cloudless Epicurean heaven which is situated in the intermundia, The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never...sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm. 1 For Epicurus's atomic explanation of the world they are entirely superfluous. Why then, it is often... | |
 | John Masson - 1884 - 288 pages
...and supremely idle in a stormless, cloudless Epicurean heaven which is situated in the intermundia, The lucid interspace of world and world, • Where...human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm.1 For Epicurus's atomic explanation of the world they are entirely superfluous. Why then, it is... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1884 - 604 pages
...ISLANDS OF THE BLEST. " Oh, where's the Isle we've seen in dreams, Our destined home— or grave?" '' Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind, Nor ever...lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow ever comes to mar The sacred everlasting calm !" The belief in ideal regions as the abode of the souls... | |
 | Lewis Campbell, William Garnett - 1884 - 460 pages
...the forms of visible things. I have been guided by Professor Sylvester towards those serene heights " Where never creeps a cloud or moves a wind, Nor ever...least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of tlmnder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow mounts, to mar Their sacred everlasting calm." But who will... | |
 | 1884 - 810 pages
...lucid interspace of world and world, AVhere never creeps a cloud, or moves n wind, Nor ever fall» the least white star of snow. Nor ever lowest roll...thunder moans. Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Tliejr sacred everlasting calm— This pagan idea we transfer to the living and true God. We imagine... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1884 - 660 pages
...kind. Nature pursues her course in accordance with everlasting laws, the gods never interfering. They haunt The lucid interspace of world and world Where never creeps a cloud or moves a wind, Nor over falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1884 - 676 pages
...kind. Nature pursues her course in accordance with everlasting laws, the gods never interfering. They haunt The lucid interspace of world and world Where never creeps a clond or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 pages
...of mighty Gods. "The Gods! nnd If I tro w;/ work is left VnflnishM — if I go. The Gods, who hannt The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never creeps a cloud, onnovca a wind, Nor ever fnlls the least while star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans,... | |
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