From tenfold darkness ; sudden as the spark From smitten steel ; from nitrous grain, the blaze. Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more ! The day is broke, which never more shall close ! Above, around, beneath, amazement all ! Terror and glory... The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 55by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
| Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...Lets go its eager grasp, and drops the world, And catches at each reed of hope in heaven. YOuxo. Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more! The...Above, around, beneath, amazement all! Terror and glory joined in their extremes I Our God in grandenr, and our world on fire! All nature struggling in the... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...From tenfold darkness ; sudden as the spark From smitten steel, from nitrous grain the blaze. Man, at we, finding imperfection, dissatisfaction, tad...afford us, murht bo led to seek it in the enjoyment of ! Young. Shall man alone, whose fat«, whose final fate, Hangs on that hour, exclude it from his thoughts... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...From tenfold darkness : sudden as the spark From smitten steel : from nitrous grain the blaze. Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more ! The day is broke, which never more shall close ! " Now as to this, — we know that " that day will come as a thief in the night ; and to some it... | |
| Henry Alford - Meditations - 1865 - 274 pages
...From tenfold darkness : sudden as the spark From smitten steel : from nitrous grain the blaze. Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more ! The day is broke, which never more shall close ! " * * Young, " Night Thoughts." Now as to this, — we know that " that day will come as a thief... | |
| Edward Young - 1866 - 574 pages
...From tenfold darkness ; sudden as the spark From smitten steel ; from nitrous grain, the blaze. Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more ! The...around, beneath, amazement all ! Terror and glory joined in their extremes ! Our God in grandeur, and our world on fire ! All nature struggling in the... | |
| Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart - Consolation - 1867 - 534 pages
...darkness. Sudden as the spark DAY OF DOOM. 191 From smitten steel ; — from nitrous grain the blaze. Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more ! The...around, beneath — amazement all ! Terror and glory, joined in their extremes. Our God in grandeur! and our world on fire! All nature struggling in the... | |
| English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...broke, which never more shall close ! Above, around, beneath, amazement all! Terror and glory joined in their extremes/ Our God in grandeur, and our world...fire! All Nature struggling in the pangs of death! Post t bun not heal her? dost thou not deplore Her strong convulsions, and her final groan 7 Wi.ere... | |
| Walter MacGilvray - 1870 - 382 pages
...break which never more will close ; Above, around, beneath, amazement all ! Terror and glory joined in their extremes ! Our God in grandeur, and our world...fire ; All nature struggling in the pangs of death ! " XL THE LOVE THAT PASSETH KNOWLEDGE. " And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge."... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...From tenfold darkness ; sudden as the spark From smitten steel ; from nitrous grain, the blaze. Man, object ever pressing dims the sight, And hides behind...as the nectar of the great; Am! squeeze my hand, pongs of death! Dost thou not hear her? Dost thou not deplore Her strong convulsions, and her final... | |
| Harvey L. Eads - Sermons, American - 1879 - 246 pages
...Expanding wide, and roaring for her prey; Above, around, beneath, amazement all! Terror and glory joined in their extremes ; Our God in grandeur, and our world on fire ! " But the professing world are mistaken in this, as they seem to be in most other things. They are,... | |
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