NOTHING. MYSTERIOUS Nothing! how shall I define Thy shapeless, baseless, placeless emptiness, Nor form, nor colour, sound, nor size, are thine, Nor words, nor figures, can thy void express : A Sample of Sonnets. Poetic amusement - Pagina 9door Thomas Beck - 1809Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1815 - 406 pagina’s
...emptiness Nor forms nor colour, sound nor size, are thine} Nor words, nor figures, can thy roid express : But though we cannot thee to aught compare, To thee...things may liken'd be; And though thou art with nobody, no where. Yet half mankind devote their lives to thee. — How many books thy history contain ! How... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1815 - 392 pagina’s
...define Thy shapeless, baseless, placeless emptiness Nor forms nor colour, sound nor size, are thine; To thee a thousand things may liken'd be ; And though thou art with nobody, no where, Nor words, nor figures, can thy void express: But though we cannot thee to aught compare,... | |
| John Evans - 1818 - 564 pagina’s
...size are thine, Nor words, nor figures can thy void express. But though we cannot t/ice with ought compare, To thee a thousand things may liken'd be ; And though thou art with nobody — nowhere, Yet half mankind devote their lives to thee. How many books thy history contain ! How... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 512 pagina’s
...emptiness ? Nor form nor colour, sound nor size, are thine ; Nor words nor figures can thy void express. But, though we cannot thee to aught compare, To thee a thousand things may likened be ; And, though thou art wiIh nobody, no where, Yet half mankind devote themselves to thee.... | |
| Epigrams - 1877 - 130 pagina’s
...emptiness ; Nor form, nor colour, size nor shape are thine ; Nor words nor figures can thy void express. But though we cannot thee to aught compare, To thee a thousand things may likened be ; Ami though thou art with nobody — nowhere — Yet half mankind devote their lives to... | |
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