 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 522 pages
...the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken...the old world were passing away, never to return. A new continent had risen up beyond the western sea. The floor of heaven, inlaid with stars, had sunk... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1856 - 524 pages
...the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken...the old world were passing away, never to return. A new continent had risen up beyond the western sea. The floor of heaven, inlaid with stars, had sunk... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1856 - 488 pages
...the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken...forms, desires, beliefs, convictions of the old world wae passing away, never to return. A new continent had risen up beyond the western sea. The floor of... | |
 | 1856 - 390 pages
...the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us. a chango from era to era. The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken...things were passing away, and the faith and the life of tea cen tunes were dissolving like a dream. Chivalry was dying; the abbey and the eastle were soon... | |
 | 1857 - 592 pages
...the literary monuments of industry they accumulated, in the palmy days of monastic institutions, may well plead for the piety and industry of the monks...away, and the faith and the life of ten centuries were dissolved like a dream. Chivalry was dying; the abbey and the castle were soon together to crumble... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1858 - 506 pages
...the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken...away, and the faith and the life of ten centuries were dissolvtng like a dream. Chivalry was dying; the abbey and the castle were soon together to crumble... | |
 | 1858 - 878 pages
...towards a passage on predestination." It was, indeed, no ordinary epoch in our national history : — " The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken...things were passing away, and the faith and the life often centuries were dissolving like a dream. Chivalry was dying ; the abbey and the castle were soon... | |
 | 1861 - 606 pages
...be again remembered that it was .an era of transition. " The paths trodden by the footsteps of past ages were broken up ; old things were passing away,...life of ten centuries were dissolving like a dream:" It was natural, too, that at such a period men should exhibit the strongest conservatism in those minor... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1862 - 564 pages
...the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken...the old world were passing away, never to return. A new continent had risen up beyond the western sea. The floor of heaven, inlaid with stars, had sunk... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1862 - 514 pages
...the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken...the old world were passing away, never to return. A new continent had risen up beyond the western sea. The floor of heaven, inlaid with stars, had sunk... | |
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The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken up ; old things were passing away, and the faith and the life of ten centuries were dissolving like a dream. Chivalry was dying; the abbey and the castle were soon together to crumble into ruins;... 
