 Spirit of Nature ! here, In this interminable wilderness Of worlds at whose immensity Even soaring fancy staggers, Here is thy fitting temple. Yet not the lightest leaf That quivers to the passing breeze Is less instinct with thee : Yet not the meanest...  Things in General - 21 psl.1878Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1926 - 758 psl.
...breeze Is less instinct with thee • Yet not the meanest worm That lurks in graves and fattens on Spirit of Nature ! here! In this interminable wilderness...soaring fancy staggers, Here is thy fitting temple the dead Less shares thy eternal breath, II IF solitude hath ever led thy steps To the wild ocean's... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 psl.
...million light-years, ie six million billion miles. Naturally, we are led to ask if there is any end to ' this interminable wilderness of worlds, At whose immensity even soaring fancy staggers '.1 Professor Einstein concludes from his general theory of relativity that the Universe is ' finite... | |
 | Walter Edwin Peck - 1927 - 650 psl.
...next succeeding, shakes free from the tyranny of his poetic mentors and exclaims, in his own voice: Spirit of Nature! here! In this interminable wilderness...less instinct with thee: Yet not the meanest worm Less shares thy eternal breath. Spirit of Nature! thou! Imperishable as this scene, Here is thy fitting... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1927 - 372 psl.
...to death and ruin driven; Some shone like stars, and as the chariot passed Bedimmed all other light. Spirit of Nature ! here In this interminable wilderness Of worlds, at whose involved immensity Even soaring fancy staggers, Here is thy fitting temple. Yet not the lightest leaf... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 psl.
...from subjection to those laws from which no other substance is exempt." To Shelley everything was God. Spirit of Nature ! here ! In this interminable wilderness...immensity Even soaring fancy staggers Here is thy flitting temple. Yet not the slightest leaf That quivers to the breeze Is less instinct with thee;... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1982 - 380 psl.
...multiplicity of choices mathematicians can now make can well be described in the words of Shelley: . . . Here In this interminable wilderness Of worlds, at whose immensity Even soaring fancy staggers. Apparently we shall have to live, certainly for the foreseeable future, with no criterion for the desirable... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 psl.
...death and ruin driven; Some shone like suns, and, as the chariot passed, Eclipsed all other light. Spirit of Nature! here! In this interminable wilderness...the lightest leaf That quivers to the passing breeze 270 Is less instinct with thee: Yet not the meanest worm That lurks in graves and fattens on the dead... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 psl.
...earth is a speck among "Innumerable systems" and "countless spheres." He tells the "Spirit of Nature," "In this interminable wilderness / Of worlds, at whose...soaring fancy staggers, / Here is thy fitting temple" (PB Shelley 1989, sec. i, lines 265-8). This keen sense of a dwarfing void comes closer to the mood... | |
 | Stewart J. Brown, George Newlands, G. M. Newlands, A. C. Cheyne - 2000 - 348 psl.
...Shelley opted for science and atheism. The immense void opened up by astronomy he could only see as this interminable wilderness Of worlds at whose immensity Even soaring fancy staggers. 4~ In this juvenile poem, 'Queen Mab' , which was privately printed in 1813, Shelley argued that Religion,... | |
 | Frank Palmeri - 2006 - 256 psl.
...humility and sensibility. Queen Mab explains to lanthe that the "Spirit of Nature" is in all things, and "not the meanest worm / That lurks in graves and fattens on the dead / Less shares thy eternal breath" (1.272-74); she also relates that it was "Nature's soul" that "filled the meanest worm that crawls... | |
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