 | Theology - 1837 - 424 pages
...and love. The heavens are rolled together like a scroll, the solid earth cracks beneath our feet, " Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea, Peopled with busy transitory groups," are shadows, and exist only in mind. Matter is nothing, spirit is all. Man is alone in the vast inane... | |
 | Literature - 1852 - 638 pages
...captain brings back to us, in the midst of war and the cares of government, the meditative man : — There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams ! What an...groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd ! The famous scene, which has for its place the summit of this tower, between Artevelde and Van Den... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1844 - 352 pages
...I.—GHENT. The platform at the top of the steepte of St. Nicholas' church. Time, day-break. ARTEVELDE. Within the sweep of yon encircling wall, How many...groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd l —If when the shows had left the dreamers' eyes They should float upward visibly to mine, How thick... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...captain brings back to us, in the midst of war and the cares of government, the meditative man : — " There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams ! What an...groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd !" The famous scene, which has for its place the summit of this tower, between Artevelde and Van Den... | |
 | England - 1851 - 790 pages
...back to us, in the midst of war and the cares of government, the meditative man : — " There lics a sleeping city. God of dreams ! What an unreal and...groups, Finds room to rise, and* never feels the crowd !" The famous scene, which has for its place the summit of this tower, between Artevelde and Van Den... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 792 pages
...meditative man : — " There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams ! What an unreal and fantastic world la going on below ! Within the sweep of yon encircling...with busy transitory groups, Finds room to rise, and neTer feels the crowd ! " The famous scene, which has for its place the summit of this tower, between... | |
 | England - 1851 - 776 pages
...uureal and fantastic world Is going on below ! Within the sweep of yon encircling wall How many a largo creation of the night, Wide wilderness and mountain,...busy transitory groups. Finds room to rise, and never feell the crowd ! ** The famous scene, which has for its place the summit of this tower, between Artevelde... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...platform at the top of the steeple of St. Nichota* Church, Ghent. Time ; daybreak.) Artevclde (alone). There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams, What an...They should float upward visibly to mine, How thick witli apparitions were that void ! But now the blank and blind profundity Turns my brain giddy with... | |
 | 1857 - 770 pages
...Artevelde, as at daybreak he surveys the sleeping city from the top of St. Nicholas' steeple — w " There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams ! 'What...busy transitory groups, Finds room to rise, and never 'j feels the crowd." This last line shows how completely the power of imagination masters the speaker;... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...hearts torn and rent during the day by the struggles and cares of life. Then you feel, with Philip von Artevelde, " There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams,...groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd." The pleasure of taking such a walk as that of the Beechen Cliff is not exhausted by the view from its... | |
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There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams ! What an unreal and fantastic world Is going on below ! Within the sweep of yon encircling wall How many a large creation of the night, Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea, Peopled with busy, transitory... 
