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" The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift... "
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The Poets and Poetry of Europe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 822 pages
...ought not to be too exact with him. PAUST, «KPinsTOPHKLES, and iGNis-FATUtrs (in alternate chorus). The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are part. Lead us on, thou wandering Gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste....
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The Land We Live in: Scotland, Ireland and the Devonshire coast

1856 - 586 pages
...translation of Faust, in which the images of beauty and sublimity are so gloriously mingled : " But «ее, how swift advance and shift Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, i-lift by I'lii't, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads aa we go. The giant-snouted crags,...
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Essays and remains, ed. with a mem. by R. Vaughan, Volume 1

Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 402 pages
...that fair visionary. He seems at times to have said with Faust, when following the ignis-fatuus: — ' The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true...thou wandering gleam ! Lead us onward, far and fast." The opinions of Origen with regard to the sufferings of Christ and the extent of his atonement became...
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Essays and Remains of the Rev. Robert Alfred Vaughan, Volume 1

Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 390 pages
...said with Faust, when following the ignis-fatuus: — ' The limits of the sphere of dream, The hounds of true and false are past, Lead us on, thou wandering gleam ! Lead us onward, far and fast.' The opinions of Origen with regard to the sufferings of Christ and the extent of his atonement became...
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Ten Years of Preacher-life: Chapters from an Autobiography

William Henry Milburn - 1859 - 392 pages
...waste. But see how swift advance and shift Trees behind trees, row by row — How cliff, by cliff, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we...— ho ; ho ; How they snort, and how they blow." Scarcely less appropriate, as descriptive of the tumultuous state of my mind and its commotion, which...
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Ten Years of Preacher-life: Chapters from an Autobiography

William Henry Milburn - 1859 - 398 pages
...Mephistophiles exercised over Faust — I at least might have chanted the chorus to the ignis-fatuus : "The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false are past ; Lead me on thou wandering gleam, Lead me onward far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see how...
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Ten Years of Preacher-life: Chapters from an Autobiography

William Henry Milburn - 1859 - 402 pages
...at least might have chanted the chorus to the ignis-fatuus : CHAPTERS FROM AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 293 " The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false are past ; Lead me on thou wandering gleam, Lead me onward far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see how...
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The British Poets, Volume 4

1855 - 394 pages
...You ought not to be too exact with him. FAUST, MEPHISTOPHELES, and IGNIS-FATUUS in ahenate Chorus. The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true...crags, ho, ho ! How they snort, and how they blow ! Stream and streamlet hurry down, A rushing throng ! A sound of song Beneath the vault of Heaven is...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...MEPIIISTOFHELES, and IONIS-FATUOS in alltnati Ckanu. The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of trne and false, are past Lead us on, thou wandering Gleam,...onward far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But seo, how swift advance and shift Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend...
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German Poetry: With the English Versions of the Best Translators

H. E. Goldschmidt - 1869 - 502 pages
...Hartz Mountain, a desolate Country. FAUST, MEPHISTOPHELES, and IGNIS-FATUUS in alternate Chorus. J_he limits of the sphere of dream. The bounds of true...us on, thou wandering Gleam. Lead us onward far and last, To the wide, the desert waste. • But see, how swift advance and shift Trees behind trees, row...
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