 | Robert Mayne Patterson - Intermediate state - 1874 - 224 pages
...constellations that by self-repetitions and answers from afar, that by counter-positions built up by triumphal gates whose architraves, whose archways,...beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that scaled eternities below ; above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body ; depth... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - English poetry - 1888 - 790 pages
...triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways— horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number weie the archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ; above... | |
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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... 
