 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...suns was around them. 246 POEMS OF LIFE-RELIGrO.\~. zontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without...number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. U'iihin were stairs that scaled the eternities below; above was below — below was above, to the man... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - Confederate States of America - 1896 - 456 pages
...constellations, that by self-repetitions and answers from afar, that by counter-positions built up triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways...number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Suddenly as thus we rode from infinite to infinite, and tilted over abysmal worlds, a mighty cry arose,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 456 pages
...gates, whose architraves, whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans, that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without...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... | |
 | Readers - 1874 - 252 pages
...onstellations, that by self-repetitions and answers U'om afar, that by counter positions, built up triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways,...spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measures were the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - Nature in the Bible - 1915 - 246 pages
...moment the rushing of planets was upon them; in a moment the blazing of suns was around them. * * * Without measure were the architraves, past number...gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities around. * * * Suddenly, as they thr>s rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly as they thus tilted... | |
 | Thomas Lansing Masson - Conduct of life - 1923 - 466 pages
...uprightre -ted, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measures were the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that sealed the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below; above was below, below was above... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - American literature - 1927 - 476 pages
...horizontal, upright, — rested, rose,— at altitudes, by spans, that seemed ghostly from infinitudes. Without measure were the architraves, past number...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... | |
 | Frank Washington Very - 1927 - 414 pages
...gates, whose architraves, whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude....architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory were the gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities... | |
 | Nigel Leask - History - 2004 - 288 pages
...and displacement, from the unrelenting positionality of up and down, North and South, West and East: 'Without measure were the architraves, past number...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... | |
 | Paschal B. Randolph - Religion - 1996 - 130 pages
...— rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans, that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measures were the architraves, past number were the archways,...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... 
