Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the... Southern Quarterly Review - Pagina 264geredigeerd door - 1844Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1828 - 384 pagina’s
...whole story was a vision, but for that superfluous and unaccountable duplicate Meershaum. TO THE PAST. THOU unrelenting PAST ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone, Lie deep... | |
| 1831 - 548 pagina’s
...present themselves to us. The first specimen that came up, was the following address " To the liast." " Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone, Lie deep... | |
| Sidney Willard - 1832 - 560 pagina’s
...the lines to "The Past," we heard a note as thrilling from " the dark backward and abysm of time." "Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. " Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep... | |
| 1832 - 542 pagina’s
...present themselves to us. The first specimen that came up, was the following address " To the Pant." " Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreatliiug reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious... | |
| 1832 - 868 pagina’s
...perhaps finer, than either of the preceding :— To the Past. 'II ' ou unrelenting Past ' Strong arc the barriers round thy dark domain And fetters sure...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep... | |
| 1837 - 408 pagina’s
...man of the purest taste that England can now call her own. " TO THE PAST. " Thou ! unrelenting past 1 Strong are the barriers, round thy dark domain, And...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. " Far in tby realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 288 pagina’s
...deep-founded strength, or tell How happy, in thy lap, the sons of men shall dwell? B2 TO THE PAST. THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep... | |
| 1837 - 412 pagina’s
...our own poets — to the man of the purest taste that England can now call her own. "TO THE PAST. " Thou ! unrelenting past ! Strong are the barriers,...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. " Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep... | |
| 740 pagina’s
...cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of quoting a few of its stanzas : "Thou unrelenting Past I Stroug arc the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters sure and fast Hold nil that enter thy nnbrealhing reign. " Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullennesa and... | |
| 1839 - 558 pagina’s
...to add to our preceding liberal quotations the second of the poems just named, the OJe TO THE PAST. Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. For in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages goneLie deep... | |
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