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" All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's... "
The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montombery, Lamb, and Kirke White
by Samuel Rogers - 1836 - 496 pages
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The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal ..., Volume 33

Education - 1884 - 688 pages
...sentence? • LES u. Who is the author of the following lines, and from what poem are they taken ? "I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength...sweep Adown the gulf of time. I saw the last of human mold, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime." Berea, OLE 8. 12. What is the diameter...
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Ohio Educational Monthly, Volume 33

Education - 1884 - 664 pages
...correct sentence? LES 1 1. Who is the author of the following lines, and from what poem are they taken ? "I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength...sweep Adown the gulf of time. I saw the last of human mold, That shall creation's death behold, As Adnm saw her prime.'' Berea, OLES 12. What is the diameter...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...at Nature's funeral pile! THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality...shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime 1 The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...at Nature's funeral pile! THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality...sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! . I saw the last of buman mould, That shall creation's death behold, sublime THOMAS CAMPBELL. The sun's eye had a sickly...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With a Prefatory Notice, Biographical ...

Thomas Campbell, John Hogben - English poetry - 1885 - 296 pages
...and justice is to come. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality...sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gnlph of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death hehold, As Adam saw her prime...
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Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 362 pages
...figurative. Sometimes the deviation is, as has been intimated, formal rather than significant. Thus: I saw a vision in my sleep That gave my spirit strength to sweep .Adown the gulf of time. — Campbell. We ne'er are angels till our passions die. — Decker. Whilom in Albion's isle there...
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British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...saw a vision in my sleep, 5 Its Immortality! That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph ks in, but dares not enter.' Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for 'industry pays debts 10 The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were The sun's eye had a sickly glare, Around...
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Alden's Cyclopedia of Universal Literature: Presenting Biographical and ...

Literature - 1886 - 494 pages
...she would wish to hear. THE LAST MAN. All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom. The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality...sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her...
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Punch, Volumes 92-93

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1887 - 750 pages
...of human mould, Alone, unfriended, unconsoled As ADAM when the nicht first rolled O'er Eden's early prime. The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan ; The wrecks of shattered thousands were Around that lonely man. Some had expired in pain, — its brands...
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Grammar of Elocution

John Millard - Elocution - 1889 - 248 pages
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself shall die, Bsfore this mortal shall assume Its immortality 1 I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of Time 1 I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold. The Sun's eye had...
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