| John Dove - 1832 - 136 páginas
...heart. For, lady, you deserve this state ; Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found ; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song : then worms... | |
| 1832 - 600 páginas
...Cowley, in which we are surprised with the following striking thought: ' But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.' ' The Character of Holland' is more likely to have proceeded from Marvell's satirical pen :— ' Holland,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 páginas
...sparkling levity of the prelude and the solemn pathos that follows : — But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found ; Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song Till, at the... | |
| 1851 - 724 páginas
...For, lady, you deserve this state ; Xor would I love ¡it lower rate, But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Xor in thy murble vault shall sound My echoing eong : then worms... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 440 páginas
...a sort of prophetic truth, in his lines to ' The Coy Mistress : ' " " But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found ; Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song." ever written... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 páginas
...poet Marvel expresses the vague apprehensions of this state, saying — " But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." Then, with another poet, he, who is involved in such perplexity, eiclaims, remonstrating with time... | |
| James Caughey, Daniel Wise - 1855 - 422 páginas
...immortal till thy work is done. Can say, with the old poet Marvell, " But at my line],: I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." No, not "deserts," blessed be God! but fields and gardens of paradise, beneath unclouded skies. But... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1857 - 408 páginas
...heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song : then worms... | |
| Jane Williams - 1861 - 580 páginas
...CHAPTER XVI. THE POETESSES. AD 1833— OCTOBER. Mary-Jane Jowsbury. ' But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." — ANDREW MARVEL. MARY-JANE JEWSBURY. MR. THOMAS JEWSBURY, a cotton-spinner and lacemaker who had... | |
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