 | George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 44 pages
...the greatest theme, that poet or philosopher ever yet exercised his powers upon. It broods over him like the day, a master o'er a slave, " A presence, which is not to be put by !" The truths that man is fallen, exposed because of sin to the just indignation of God, in peril of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest. Which we arc toiling all our lives to find. In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On...darkness of the grave; Thou, over w'hom thy immortality 56 57 Broods like the day, — a master o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by ; Thou little... | |
 | 1846 - 592 pages
...heritage, thou eye among the blind, That deaf and silent readest the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; Mighty prophet, seer blest, On whom...do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find. * * * Ф * Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of Heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...the greatest theme that poet or philosopher ever yet exercised his powers upon. It broods over him like the day, a master o'er a slave, ' " A presence, which is not to be put by !" The truths that man is fallen, exposed because of sin to the just indignation of God, in peril of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 462 pages
...Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find ! Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day,...o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not to be put by !" Now here, not to stop at the daring spirit of metaphor which connects the epithets " deaf and silent,"... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 380 pages
...thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the Eternal Mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On...do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find ! Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day, a Master o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...them,) far above the opinions of men, in "clear dream and solemn vision," like one over whom " his immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by." He was one who debated with himself whether this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire, were so... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - Bible - 1851 - 368 pages
...doctrine. " At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day." • * # * * " Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths...lost, the darkness of the grave ; Thou, over whom thine immortality Broods like the day, a Master o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not to be put by... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - Bible - 1851 - 336 pages
...toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave ; Thou, over whom thine immortality Broods like the day, a Master o'er a Slave,...Presence which is not to be put by ; Thou little child !" 1 " Such remarks, I fear, may be felt as exceedingly painful by those who are accustomed to regard... | |
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Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity ; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet... 
