Other Worlds Than Ours: The Plurality of Worlds Studied Under the Light of Recent Scientific ResearchesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1905 - 318 páginas |
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Página 2 - The living soul was flash'd on mine, And mine in this was wound, and whirl'd About empyreal heights of thought, And came on that which is, and caught The deep pulsations of the world, Ionian music measuring out The steps of Time - the shocks of Chance The blows of Death. At length my trance Was cancell'd, stricken thro
Página 106 - The being of another world may have his home in subterranean cities, warmed by central fires ; or in crystal caves, cooled by ocean tides ; or he may float with the Nereids upon the deep; or mount upon wings as eagles ; or rise upon the pinions of the dove, that he may flee away, and be at rest...
Página 137 - Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.