 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...  Periods of European Literature - עמוד 1601906תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 דפים
...Scintillans: The World:— Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, I saw Eternity the other night, All calm as it was bright; 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.... | |
 | John Smith Harrison - 1903 - 268 דפים
...first he pictures the revolution of the world about the great ring of light which he calls eternity: " I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd : in which the world And all her train were hurl'd." He then describes the lover busied in his... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1904 - 384 דפים
...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...Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. Here is something like an intricate variation on some melody of Spenser, sweetening,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904 - 270 דפים
...Tennyson's The Ancient Sage. 313. The shadow, Time. Cf. the opening of Vaughan's poem, The World: — " I saw eternity the other night, Like a great ring...days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd." 324-7. "The Elysian lawns," wrote Tennyson... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 710 דפים
...spring I found some drills With echoes beaten from th' eternal hills'; or the more familiar lines — 'I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring...days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd,' he displays at once a range of imagination... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 692 דפים
...I found some drills With echoes beaten from th' eternal hills ' ; or the more familiar lines — ' I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of...days, years, DriVn by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd,' he displays at once a range of imagination... | |
 | Robert R. Mathisen - 2001 - 674 דפים
...floodlights were switched on along the stairway the intense light brought to mind Henry Vaughan's lines: I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light. In rows of sixes, an apparently inexhaustible phalanx of prelates filed out of the Vatican palace,... | |
 | Michael H. Whitworth - 2001 - 270 דפים
...'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... | |
 | Ben Bova - 2002 - 482 דפים
...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...Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. Henry Vaughan The Lights in the Sky It was not merely a poetic flight of fancy... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 דפים
...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...days, 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... | |
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