 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1904 - 710 pages
...Meditations.' ' I knew not,' he writes of the boys and girls who were the companions of his infancy, 'that they were born or should die. But all things...which talked with my expectation and moved my desire. ... All appeared uew and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - Great Britain - 1905 - 378 pages
...made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things. . . . Boys and girls tumbling in the street were moving...jewels : I knew not that they were born or should die. . . . The city seemed to stand in Eden or to be built in Heaven. The streets were mine, the temple... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English literature - 1907 - 354 pages
...things. The Men ! O what venerable and reverent creatures did the aged seem ! Immortal Cherubims ! And young men glittering and sparkling angels, and...places. Eternity was manifest in the Light of the INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY Day, and something infinite behind everything appeared, which talked with... | |
 | Thomas Traherne - Devotional literature - 1908 - 392 pages
...maids strange 'seraphic pieces of life and beauty ! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born...appeared : which talked with my expectation and moved my 1 desire. The city seemed to stand in Eden, or to be built in Heaven. /The streets were mine, the temple... | |
 | Thomas Traherne - Devotional literature - 1908 - 392 pages
...street, and playing, wereTBOVlHg Jewels" f"Btrew not that they were born or should die ; But .., gll things abided eternally as they were in their proper...the Light of the Day, and something infinite -behind _every thing appeared: which talked with my expectation and |Soye3~""fS"y." desire* The city seemed... | |
 | Edward Thomas - Authors, English - 1909 - 310 pages
...maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty ! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born...was manifest in the light of the day, and something inf1nite behind everything appeared, which tallied with my expectation and moved my desire. . . ."... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 332 pages
...maids strange, seraphic pieces of life and beauty. Boys and girls tumbling in the streets and playing were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born...moved my desire. The city seemed to stand in Eden and to be built in Heaven. The streets were mine, the temple was mine, the people were mine, their... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 186 pages
...maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty ! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born...abided eternally as they were in their proper places. . . . The city seemed to stand in Eden, or to be built in Heaven.1 It is necessary to quote at some... | |
 | John Wright Buckham - Mysticism - 1915 - 264 pages
...maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty. Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born...as they were in their proper places. Eternity was manifested in the light of the Day, and something infinite behind everything appeared; which talked... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - Children - 1916 - 26 pages
...maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty ! Boys and girls, tumbling in the street and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born...infinite behind everything appeared : which talked with, M649826 my expectation and moved my desire. The city seemed to stand in Eden or to be built in Heaven.... | |
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And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange 'seraphic pieces of life and beauty ! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die ; But all things abided eternally... 
