 The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds!  Glasgow Medical Journal - Page 4231879Full view - About this book
 | 1807 - 552 pages
...Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years ; But thou shall flourish in immortal youth Unhurt amidst the war of elements The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds ! " What a sweet comment are these exquisite verses on the lofty thought of our immortal dramatist.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 476 pages
...with humour and spirit. VoL. L, No. XXV. Bat thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt, amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. ADD. CATO. Sir, I AM an old man, as you are ; and when I reflect on the fantastic vicissitude of human... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1819 - 418 pages
...uncompounded, is liable neither to decay nor destruction, but, laying claim to endless being, " Will flourish in immortal youth, " Unhurt amid the war of elements, " The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds." But, though the soul be thus distinct from, and independent of, the body in its nature... | |
 | 1821 - 778 pages
...becomes a being who, when " all this fair creation' sinks to insignificance, shall rise " Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds." But I forget that I am yet a traveller on the earth's surface, and that my kind friends are all this... | |
 | 1821 - 800 pages
...becomes a being who, when " all this fair creation" sinks to insignificance, shall rise " Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds." But I forget that I am yet a traveller on the earth's surface, and that my kind friends are all this... | |
 | 1821 - 780 pages
...lived when the records of arts and sciences, and learning perished, and shall continue to live " amidst the war of elements, " The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds." When God said " let there be light, and there was light," the benevokj and sublime outlines of the... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...becomes a being who, when " all this fair creation" sinks to insignificance, shall rise " Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.'» But 1 forget that I am yet a traveller on the earth's surface, and that my kind friends are all this... | |
 | George Combe - 1822 - 518 pages
...we may hold, as Dr. Spurzheim does, that the soul « shall flourish in immortal youlh, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds." It has been stated as an objection to this doctrine, that it is inconceivable how an immaterial principle... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...once moralised on the very trees before us, hath said, — " The soul shall flourish in ira mortal youth, , Unhurt amid the war of elements. The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds ;" and one, far greater than he, declared " that life and immortality are brought to light by the gospel,"... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...Paris, 1751, 2 toni. that perish," preserved from the ruin that shatters his material frame, still " Shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, ond the crush of worlds." If, then, it be allowed, that such a notion, for such a reasonable final... | |
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