 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1820 - 748 pages
...dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ; but when I luok again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine,...habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount, I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thoughts. Entranced... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...substantial black— An fibon mass— methinks thou piereest it As with a wedge. But wben I look again, There is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine — Thy habitation from eternity ! At the close of this act the reader feels irresistibly that he stands on the threshold of some scene... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is...habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is...habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Did'st vanish from my thought: entranced... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! but when I look again, It is...habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced... | |
 | University of Glasgow - College prose, English - 1836
...thee, and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is...calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity.1' But what means that succession of lofty pinnacles, which seem to pierce the sky, and stretch... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy chrystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, A« with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Toy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I ^n/.'il upon thee, Till thou, still present... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...thee and above Deep is the air, and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is...eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gaz'd upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Did'et vanish from my thought : entranc'd in prayer... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...theo and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black. An ebon mass : melhinks thou piercest uel Taylor gazed upon thec, Till Ihou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced... | |
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Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass ; methinks thou piercest it, As with... 
