 | American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...realize the grandeur of the shadowy. ways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at ahitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude....gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below : above was below, below was above, to the man stripped... | |
 | 1846 - 610 pages
...grandeur of xhe shadowy. ways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — lhat seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were...gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below : above was below, below was ahove, tu the man stripped... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1848 - 380 pages
...afar, that by counter-positions, built up triumphal gates, whose architraves, \vh se arch- ways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitude...number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Withinwere stairs that scaled the eternities below ; above was below — below was above, to the man... | |
 | American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...and answers from afar, that by counter-positions, built up triumphal gates, whose architraves,.whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose,...archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that sealed the eternities below ; above was below ; below was above to the man stripped of gravitating... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1852 - 312 pages
...constellations, that by self-repetitions and answers from afar, that by counter-positions, built up triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways,...rested, rose— at altitude by spans — that seemed ghosty from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...gates, whose architraves, whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude....gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below : above was below, below was above, to the man stripped... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 338 pages
...gates, whose architraves, whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude....gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below: above was below, below was above, to the man stripped... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 318 pages
...gates, whose architraves, whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude....gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below : above was below, below was above, to the man stripped... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...gates, whose architraves, whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude....number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. With, in were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below : above... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 pages
...architraves, whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans i— that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure...gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below: above was below, below was above, to the man stripped... | |
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Within were stairs that scaled *.he eternities below; above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body: depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode... 
