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Such Rare Citings: The Prose Poem in English Literature - Page 78
by Nikki Santilli - 2002 - 282 pages
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 9

1846 - 610 pages
...ways—horizontal, upright—rested, rose— at altitudes, by spans—lhat seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...the eternities below : above was below, below was ahove, tu the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height...
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The Orbs of Heaven, Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 366 pages
...archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose, at altitude by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ; above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed...
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The Wonders of the Heavens

Frederick Smeeton Williams - Astronomy - 1852 - 216 pages
...archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose, at altitude by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below; above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 26

American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...descendants. But Eve is very stiff and unyielding in her disposition ; she seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that sealed the eternities below ; above was below ; below was above to the man stripped of gravitating...
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De Quincey's Writings: Narrative and miscellaneous papers. 1853

Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 318 pages
...horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds,...
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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: System of the heavens as revealed by ...

Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 316 pages
...horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds,...
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De Quincey's writings [ed. by J.T. Fields. 23 vols., comprising the final ...

Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 338 pages
...horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds,...
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De Quincey's works, Volume 3

Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 pages
...horizontal, upright—rested, rose—at altitudes, by spans i—that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds,...
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Sketches of and from Jean Paul Richter

Jean Paul F. Richter, Jean Paul - 1859 - 92 pages
...archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose at altitude by spans that seemed ghostly, from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...gates. Within were stairs, that scaled the eternities below ; above was below, below was above to the man stripped of gravitating body ; depth was swallowed...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 61

American periodicals - 1859 - 878 pages
...archways—horizontal, upright—rested, rose, at altitude by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number...archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that sealed the eternities below ; above was below ; below was above to the man stripped of gravitating...
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