 But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last, Gathered like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's...  Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry - Page 7by James Brown Selkirk - 1878 - 237 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 816 pages
...of Venice. Pillan or columns, I could distinguish into simple and compounded. Wotton'i Architecture. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. Milton. The palace built by Picus vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars stood. Druden. The... | |
 | James Wills - Faith - 1835 - 256 pages
...degree improbable that the Christian religion should be other than it professes — divine truth — If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. THE END. DUBLIN: KD WKBB, PRINTER, GREAT BRUNSWICK.STREET. ... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Labor - 1840 - 68 pages
...prosperity, as by the elevation of all classes of its citizens. To question this seems an approach to crime. "If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." I am aware, that in reply to all that has been said in favour of the possibility of uniting self-improvement... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 456 pages
...whose purposes were high and true — whose heart was enamored of beauty, and devoted to his race : -if this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on MubbUt. . BURNS. THERE are certain sentiments which " give the world assurance of a man." They are... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 pages
...whose purposes were high and true — whose heart was enamored of beauty, and, devoted to his race : -if this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on ,s.tubhle. , BURNS. THERE are certain sentiments which " give the world assurance of a man." They are... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...whose purposes were high and true — whose heart was enamored of beauty, and devoted to his race : -if this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on Hubble. Truly, yours, HT TUCKERMAS. THE ROSE: VERSIFIED FROM THE GERMAN. BY MRS. EJ EAMES. " I see... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - Bible - 1842 - 384 pages
...evangelists, that the faith of the Christian world in the divine authority of Jesus Christ is grounded. " If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." two days. And many more believed, because of his own word; 41 and said unto the woman, Now we believe,... | |
 | Theology - 1871 - 870 pages
...love, are in truce with absurdity and wrong ; and evil extinguishes itself by an apotheosis into good. "If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." 2. The same is evident from the nature of love, as the real principle of law. As we have seen, the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 482 pages
...like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change. Self-fed and self-consumed ; if this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." Evil shall perish, but good shall remain. " Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone... | |
 | John Brown - 1848 - 530 pages
...Holy Ghost, according to his own will." the weight of his interests for eternity, his all on it. " If this fail, the pillared firmament is rottenness, and earth's base built on stubble." To state that message, and that evidence, is the appropriate function of the high and holy office to... | |
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