 | Theology - 1862 - 920 pages
...should never think of a popular lecture on the Bible. Their investigations evaporate into nothing — Rich windows, that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. The laborers of this school keep digging and scratching in their gold mine, amidst noxious gases and... | |
 | Bible - 1862 - 934 pages
...should never think of a popular lecture on the Bible. Their investigations evaporate into nothing — Rich windows, that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. The laborers of this school keep digging and scratching in their gold mine, amidst noxious gases and... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 926 pages
...should never think of a popular lecture on the Bible. Their investigations evaporate into nothing — Rich windows, that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. The laborers of this school keep digging and scratching in their gold mine, amidst noxious gases and... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...heath with the FOO!) Breathe soft, ye winds ! ye waves, in silence sleep. GAT.— Epi. I. WINDO WS.— Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. GnAT.— A Long Story. And storied windows richiy dight, Casting a dim religious light. MILTON.—... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...the power of fairy hands To raise the building's fretted height, Each panel in achievement clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walla, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord Keeper led the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1863 - 304 pages
...the pow'r of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord-keeper led the... | |
 | Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 pages
...wave, with a kind of connexion j — if this connexion is lost sight of, why they may become merely " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." I begin with " Endymion : A Poetic Romance." This effort of the poet, which entailed upon its author... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...making a fortune. On his own Character. x A favorite has no friend. On the Death of a Facorite Cat. Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. A Long Storil. Now as the Paradisaical pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 pages
...the pow*r of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord-keeper led the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1866 - 852 pages
...thrown away, his genius had no directing motive, or like his architecture, was elaborately wasted on " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." His wit and sarcasm, it is said, made him many enemies, and yet his wit and sarcasm were seldom anything... | |
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Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light,... 
