 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...poem which we never much admired, The Vision of Sin, Mr Tennyson has the two following lines — " And on the glimmering limit, far withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn." This image is afterwards repeated in the Princess. Thus— " Till the sun Grew broader toward his death... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 892 pages
...the elope Cry to the summit, Is there any hope ? To which an answer pealed from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit, far withdrawn, God made himself on awful rote of dawn." A reply there is; but whether in the affirmative nr negative we do not know.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...slope, Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering...withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...slope, Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; .And on the...withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 594 pages
...slope Cry to the summit — " Is there any hope I" To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit, far-withdrawn, God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.' Into the final mysteries of judgment and of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...the summit, " Is there any hope ? " VOL. II. <J To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering...withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...slope, Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn (Ťod made Himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 884 pages
...the slope Cry to the summit, Is there any hope ? To which an answer pealed from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering...withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn." A reply there is; but whether in the affirmative or negative we do not know. A revelation there is;... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 396 pages
...the slope Cry to the summit, Is there any hope? To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering...withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn." A reply there is ; but whether in the affirmative or negative we do not know. A revelation there is... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 448 pages
...the slope Cry to the summit, Is there any hope ! To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand.; And on the glimmering...withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn." A reply there is ; but whether in the affirmative or negative we do not know. A revelation there is... | |
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At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. 
