 The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.  Journal of Proceedings and Addresses - Page 795by National Education Association of the United States, National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Phillips Brooks - 1838 - 394 pages
..." The one remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light forever shines ; earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. Until death tramples it to fragment** And so what is there to be done ? What could be clearer ? Only... | |
 | 1838 - 1012 pages
...remind us of Shelley's equally in"the casement with the slayer be admit- felicitous comparison — Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments. * A metonymy for the eye-brow. With respect to which the most... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...world of fancies,' seeking one like thee, And find—alas ! mine own infirmity. EXISTENCE IN SPACE. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. DEVOTEDNESS UNREQUIRING. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...The world of fancies, seeking one like thee, And find—alas! mine own infirmity. EXISTENCE IN SPACE. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass. Stains the white radiance of eternity. DEVOTEDNESS UNREQU1RING. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...world of fancies, seeking one like thee, And find — alas ! mine own infirmity. EXISTENCE IN SPACE. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. DEVOTEDNESS UNREQUIRING. One ward is too oftenprofaned For me to profane it ; One feeling too falsely... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness, is that enchanting one of Shelley's in the Adonais :— Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. I multiply these particulars in order to impress upon the reader's mind the great importance of imagination... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 382 pages
...Shakspeare or Milton, for the extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness in this imagination : Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. The difference between my own feelings while leaving Honolulu now, in improved health and spirits,... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 pages
...pellucid, but rather, as the title indicates, tinctured with imperfections. Life is many-hued, — " Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity." The purest are not immaculate ; the impure, though doubledyed with guilt, have some tinge of humanity... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1856 - 372 pages
...Shakspeare or Milton, for the extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness in this imagination : Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. The difference between my own feelings while leaving Honolulu now, in improved health and spirits,... | |
 | 1859 - 272 pages
...LIFE. "The one remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, earth's shadows fly. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments." — SHELLET. CORNELIA and Milly Boylston were so generally included... | |
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