 | Phillips Brooks - 1838 - 394 psl.
...hard to be heathen and would still be Christian in his own des pite, is really realized, — " The one remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light...many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. Until death tramples it to fragment** And so what is there to be done ? What could be clearer ? Only... | |
 | 1838 - 1012 psl.
...remind us of Shelley's equally in"the casement with the slayer be admit- felicitous comparison — Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments. * A metonymy for the eye-brow. With respect to which the most... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 psl.
...world of fancies,' seeking one like thee, And find—alas ! mine own infirmity. EXISTENCE IN SPACE. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. DEVOTEDNESS UNREQUIRING. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 psl.
...world of fancies, seeking one like thee, And find — alas ! mine own infirmity. EXISTENCE IN SPACE. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. DEVOTEDNESS UNREQUIRING. One ward is too oftenprofaned For me to profane it ; One feeling too falsely... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 psl.
...The world of fancies, seeking one like thee, And find—alas! mine own infirmity. EXISTENCE IN SPACE. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass. Stains the white radiance of eternity. DEVOTEDNESS UNREQU1RING. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 psl.
...extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness, is that enchanting one of Shelley's in the Adonais :— Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. I multiply these particulars in order to impress upon the reader's mind the great importance of imagination... | |
 | William Smith - 1846 - 170 psl.
...new life and love and beauty. " The ONE remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light for ever shines; Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of...many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments." All death in nature is birth,—the assumption of a new garment,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 382 psl.
...Shakspeare or Milton, for the extraordinary combination of delicacy and vastness in this imagination : Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. The difference between my own feelings while leaving Honolulu now, in improved health and spirits,... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 psl.
...pellucid, but rather, as the title indicates, tinctured with imperfections. Life is many-hued, — " Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity." The purest are not immaculate ; the impure, though doubledyed with guilt, have some tinge of humanity... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1856 - 532 psl.
...He himself put them on, and taking her arm in his, they went forth of the house. CHAPTEE XXXV. The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows flee; Life, like a dome of many- coloured glass Stains the clear radiance. of Eternity, Until Death... | |
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The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. 
