I stand, the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure ; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to occupy, Or to pass through ; but rather an abyss In which the everlasting stars abide ; And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might... Modern Painters ... - Página 207por John Ruskin - 1878Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 páginas
...lapse;— and lo! while in this strait I stand — the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to...might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day. — Hail Contemplation ! from the stately towers, Reared by the industrious hand of human art To lift... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 446 páginas
...chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure; no domain For fickle, short-lived clonds to occupy, Or to pass through; but rather an abyss...might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day. — Hail Contemplation ! from the stately towers, Reared by the industrious hand of human art To lift... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 páginas
...lapse ; aud lo ! while in this strait I stand— the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure : no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to...might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day. Hail Contemplation ! from the stately towers, Reared by the industrious hand of human art To lift i... | |
| 1861 - 578 páginas
...excite the deepest emotions. " The chasm of sky above my head Is Heaven's profoundest azure : — au abyss In which the everlasting stars abide, And whose...might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day." — Wordsworth's Excursion. But it is when this mighty chasm, the blue vault above us, is partly studded... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1863 - 816 páginas
...beautifully expresses it— * The charm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure— an abysl In which the everlasting stars abide, And whose soft...might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day.' But since then, light, airy, fleecy clouds have been gradually gathering. First came a cloud like that... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 páginas
...— and lo ! while in this strait I stand — the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure ; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to...occupy, Or to pass through ; but rather an abyss In wh:ch the everlasting stars abide ; And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt The curious... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1867 - 502 páginas
...reminiscences of the old masters. "The chasm of sky above my head Is Heaven's profoundest azure. No domain Tor fickle, short-lived clouds, to occupy, Or to pass...abide, And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, niigl t tempt The curious eye to look for them by day." And, in his American Notes, I remember Dickens... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 páginas
...white reminiscences of the old masters 11. "The chasm of sky above my head Is Heaven's profoundest azure. No domain For fickle, short-lived clouds, to occupy, Or to pass through ; but rather an abyit In which the everlasting stars ablde, And whose soft gloom, nnd boundless depth, might tempt... | |
| Edward Thring - 1868 - 392 páginas
...Conditional Sentences. First Clause wanting. Behold a cabinet for sages built, Which kings might envy. Whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day. p. 80. Time Sentence. Until the scale Of time and conscious nature disappear. p. 81. Conditional Sentences.... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 páginas
...— and lo ! while in this strait I stand — the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure ; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to...abyss In which the everlasting stars abide ; And whose softgloom,andboundlessdepth,mighttempt The curious eye to look for them by day. — Hail Contemplation... | |
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