 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 Seiten
...burn. Even gods must yield — religions take their turn : 'Twas Jove's — 'tis Mahomet's — and other creeds Will rise with other years, till man...of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on reeds, 3 IV. Bound to the earth, he lifts his eye to heaven — Is't not enough, unhappy thing ! to know Thou... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 Seiten
...other creeds Will rise with other years, till man shall learn Vainly his incense soars, his vietim bleeds ; Poor child of Doubt and Death, whose hope...reeds. Bound to the earth, he lifts his eye to heaven — 1s't not enough, unhappy thing ! to know » Thou art ? Is this a boon so kindly given, That being,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 362 Seiten
...longer burn. Even gods must yield — religions take their turn : Twas Jove's — 'tis Mahomet's — and other creeds Will rise with other years, till man shall learn Vainly his incen-e soars, his victim bleeds ; Poor chihl of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on reeds. Il.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 Seiten
...spectacle of the failure of the Grecian intellect excited in one of its most fervent worshippers: " And other creeds Will rise with other years, till man...of doubt and death, whose hope is built on reeds." The subsequent course of Greek philosophy proves that the interval of scepticism, or at least, the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 252 Seiten
...leu.u Vainly his incense soars, his victim hleeds ; Poor child of Douht and Death, whose hope is huilt on reeds Bound to the earth, he lifts his eye to heaven...enough, unhappy thing ! to know Thou art? Is this a hoon so kindly given, That heing, thou would'st he again, and go, Thou know'st not, reck'st not to... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 Seiten
...burn. Even gods must yield — religions take their turn ; 'Twos Jove's — 'tis Mohammed's — and other creeds Will rise with other years, till man...of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on reeds. IV. Bound to the earth, he lifts his eye to heaven — Is 't not enough, unhappy thing ! to know Thou... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1863 - 806 Seiten
...and nobler aspirations. If Byron, in the darkness of infidelity, mournfully conceived of man as a ' Poor child of doubt and death, whose hope is built on reeds, ' an apostle could say, rejoicingly, ' I know in wliom I have believed, and I am persuaded He is able... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1864 - 522 Seiten
...(LONGF. II. 8.). 9iid)t feiten ftebt neben einem §auf>tfa^e mit will ein UJÎefeenfaÇ mit shall: And other creeds Will rise with other years, till man shall learn Vainly his incense soars (ByR. , Ch. Har. 2, 3.). Whoever . . shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round... | |
 | 1866 - 588 Seiten
...burn. Even gods must yield — religions take their turn : 'Twas Jove's — 'tis Mahomet's — and other creeds Will rise with other years, till man...child of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on reeds ! And then, all unconsciously, in the next line outleaps the truth :— Bound to the Earth, he lifts... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1866 - 204 Seiten
...burn. Even gods must yield — religions take their turn ; 'Twas Jove's — 'tis Mohammed's — and other creeds Will rise with other years, till man...of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on reeds. IV. Bound to the earth, he lifts his eye to heaven — Is't not enough, unhappy thing! to know Thou... | |
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Look on this spot — a nation's sepulchre ! Abode of gods, whose shrines no longer burn. Even gods must yield — religions take their turn : 'Twas Jove's — 'tis Mahomet's — and other creeds Will rise with other years, till man shall learn Vainly... 
