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... The Quarterly Review - Page 144edited by - 1826Full view - About this book
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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