 The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold : the gates were at first the end of the world.  The Chautauquan - Page 1881906Full view - About this book
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1906 - 902 pages
...following passage on the child's vision of the world, from Traherne's "Centuries of Meditation": "Tbe corn was orient and immortal wheat which never should be reaped nor wag ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street... | |
 | Literature - 1906 - 858 pages
...conception we have already noted in the poems is expressed with, to our mind, a far deeper beauty: — The corn was orient and immorta'l wheat which never should be reaped Dor was ever sown. l thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1908 - 440 pages
...Traherne describes the world as it first appeared to him when he was a child. CENTURIES OF MEDITATIONS III THE corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...transported and ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual heauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things.... | |
 | Thomas Traherne - Devotional literature - 1908 - 392 pages
...Time was Eternity, and a perpetual Sabbath. Is it not strange^;. -^^bp^sj^jhejearned/ never unfold ? f The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never...were at first the end of the world. The green trees v( x \ ' I «~ when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me, their sweetness... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - English language - 1909 - 454 pages
...dismisseth us", "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick", or " They're a copper-bottoming 'em " with " The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped nor was ever sown ", we observe how much more agreeable to the ear the last sentence is and how much more easy to pronounce.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1911 - 578 pages
...beautiful as they are, have nothing so striking as the corresponding prose passage, which begins : ' The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never...thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.' Again, the poems on Thoughts, as being every man's 'substantial treasures,' are less flowing and musical... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...fools of others, he renders himself ridiculous. J. TILLOTSON. — Sermons. THE WORLD SEEN BY A CHILD THE corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones s ?n of the street were as precious as gold : the gates were at first the end of the world. The green... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 186 pages
...stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumer able joys. . . . The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never...the 'world. The green trees when I saw them first . . . transported and ravished me, their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 192 pages
...stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumer able joys. . . . The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never...everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were aa precious as gold : the gates were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them... | |
 | English literature - 1914 - 556 pages
...who was for a time a member of this little folk has described their universe in a memorable passage : The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never...the street were as precious as gold ; the gates were the end of the world. The green trees, when I saw them first through one of the gates, transported... | |
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