| George Gilfillan - 1854 - 122 páginas
...a voice from off the slope, Cry to the summit — " Is there any hope ?" And then an answer pealed from that high land, But in a tongue no man could...withdrawn, God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. These sublime words hold out, however, a prospect which Scripture does not recognise, however pleasing... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1856 - 358 páginas
...him sour." And thus, at length, in a darkness visible of mystery and grandeur, the " Vision of Sin" closes: — " At last I heard a voice upon the slope...limit, far withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of daivn." A. reply there is; but whether in the affirmative or negative, we do not know. A revelation... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 páginas
...conscience made him sour." At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope P " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But...limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawu. COME not, -when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen... | |
| 1856 - 796 páginas
...hope ?' To which an answer pealM from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And in the glimmering limit far withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn." "An awful'rose of dawn ;" it must be so: the clouds are the veriest embodiment of the language. Be... | |
| 1857 - 676 páginas
...I heard a voice upon the slope, Cry to the summit, * Is there any hope ?' To which an answer pealed from that high land, But in a tongue no man could...withdrawn, God made Himself an awful rose of dawn !" TENNYSON. IN the twilight of a day not long ago, I sat in a spacious library, where the ruddy firelight... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 páginas
...slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, .Hut in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering...withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. COME not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head,... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 386 páginas
...las't I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, Is there any hope? To which an answer peaPd from that high land* But in a tongue no man could...in deep uncertainty. Tennyson, like Addison in his " Yision of Mirza," ventures not to withdraw the veil from the left side of the eternal ocean. He leaves... | |
| James White - 1860 - 874 páginas
...be not of this world, is still coextensive with it, and is founded on meekness, holiness, and truth. And on the glimmering limit, far withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn. § 12. Hated equally by English and Normans, feared equally by priest and baron, William pursued his... | |
| James White - 1860 - 874 páginas
...be not of this world, is still coextensive with it, and is founded on meekness, holiness, and truth. And on the glimmering limit, far withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn. § 12. Hated equally by English and Normans, feared equally by priest and baron, William pursued his... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 páginas
...I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer pealed from that high land, But in a tongue no man could...withdrawn God made himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip* so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
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