 While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error, Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, — Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages : " Choose well, your choice is Brief and yet endless...  The Stenographer - Page 1331894Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...it Gladness and sorrow ; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it i Daunting us, — onward. And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal, Goal...Stars silent rest o'er us. Graves under us silent ! While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error, Perplexes the bravest... | |
 | 1855 - 676 pages
...have accomplished can shed gratification over the mind. Persevere, brave men ! "Solemn before yon, Veiled the dark Portal, Goal of all mortal: Stars silent rest o'er you, Graves under you silent. Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness; Here la all fullness,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1843 - 280 pages
...in it Gladness and sorrow ; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it Daunting us, — onward. And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal, Goal...Stars silent rest o'er us. Graves under us silent ! While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error, Perplexes the bravest... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1843 - 404 pages
...what time, in what place we will, are there not Immensities, Eternities over us, around us, in us : ' Solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal, Goal of...Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent I' Between these two great Silences, the hum of all our spinning cylinders, Trades-Unions, Anti-Coru-Law... | |
 | 1843 - 452 pages
...in it Good hap and sorrow ; We press still thorow, Naught that abides in it Daunting us, — onward. And solemn before us Veiled, the dark portal, Goal...mortal ; Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us eilent. But henrd nre the voices, Voice of the sages, The worlds and the ages ; Choose well, your choice... | |
 | Theology - 1844 - 1002 pages
...Weimar, among our English Dukes, we will be patient yet awhile. 1. " The Future hides in it Good hap and sorrow ; We press still thorow, Naught that abides...Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent 3. But heard are the Voices, Voice of the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages : ' Choose well, your choice... | |
 | 1892 - 848 pages
...in it Gladness and sorrow: We press still thorow, Naught that abides in it Daunting us — onward. And solemn before us Veiled the dark Portal, Goal...Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent. Whilst earnest thou gazest Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error : Perplexing the bravest... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...hides in it Gladness and sorrow; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it Daunting us,—onward. And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal, Goal...Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent. While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error, Perplexes the bravest... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns, English - 1853 - 674 pages
...in it Good hap and sorrow ; We press still thorow, Naught that abides in it Daunting us, — onward. And solemn before us Veiled, the dark portal, Goal...Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent. 3 But heard are the voices, Voices of sages, The worlds and the ages ; Choose well, your choice is Brief... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1854 - 780 pages
...to | endure the same experience of life and death I which we and our posterity must endure likewise. "And solemn before us Veiled, the dark portal, Goal of all mortal; Stars silent o'er us, Graves under us silent. But heard are the voices, Heard are the ages, Of heroes and sages,... | |
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