 Before thy mystic altar, heavenly truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth. Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray. Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming...  The British Prose Writers - Seite 1731821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 Seiten
...knelt in youth : Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened et song ! awake, my heart, awake ! Green vales and...icy cliffs, all join my hymn. Thou first and chief, Tetmstic — From the Persian. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 Seiten
...! Tlie Conelnding Sentence of Berkeley's Siris imitated, Before thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood as I knelt in youth ; Thus let me kneel, till this full form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray : Then shall my soul, now lost in clonds... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 Seiten
...Dr. Thomas Brown, Lectures on Philosophy of Mind. TRUTH. BEFORE thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood as I knelt in youth : Thus let me...till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray : Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 Seiten
...youth ; Thus let me kneel, till this c'.ull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by rhy ray ! Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow.* « Telraitie — From the Persian. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 Seiten
...Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. 2. THUTH. Before thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood as I knelt in youth : Thus let me...till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray : Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 Seiten
...germ of the following lines by Sir William Jones : — " Before thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood as I knelt in youth ; Thus let me...till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray ; Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1888 - 570 Seiten
...the way, for he was one who had a right to speak of himself, as he has spoken in these lines : — " Before thy mystic altar, heavenly truth, 1 kneel in...Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay, And life.s last shade be brightened by thy ray, Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without... | |
 | 1894 - 650 Seiten
...another: "Before thy mystic altar, Heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth ; There let me kneel till this dull form decay, And life's last shade is brightened by thy ray ! " III. Spiritual. (1), We place in the very forefront of spiritual qualifications... | |
 | Laurie Magnus, Cecil Headlam - 1903 - 390 Seiten
...at the altar of Truth. "—BERKELEY. THE ABOVE IMITATED. BEFORE thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood as I knelt in youth : Thus let me...till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray : Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1908 - 456 Seiten
...repeats the words of the great scholar, Sir William Jones : "Before thy mystic altar, heavenly truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth, Thus let me...till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by the ray." HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be: that is the question:... | |
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