 Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge : How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar Our bubbles ; as the old burst,...  Byron - Page 179by John Nichol - 1894 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 326 pages
...Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. LIFE. (DON JUAN, Canto xv. Stanza 99.) BETWEEN two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Townshend Verney-Cave Braye (5th baron) - 1881 - 224 pages
...mind whole volumes of thought, and lead it through long vistas of profound and solemn reverie : — " Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn upon the horizon's verge, How little do we know that which we are, How less what we may be ! the eternal... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pages
...Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. LIFE. (DON JUAN, Canto xv. Stanza 99.) BETWEEN two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. LIFE. (DON JUAN, Canto xv. Stanza 99.) BETWEEN two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...by one, in turn, some grand mistake, Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. Byron, DJ7.21. Between two worlds, life hovers like a star 'Twixt night and morn, upon th' horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal... | |
 | 1883 - 778 pages
...days; Th' unbounded hope, and heavenly ignorance Of what is called the world and the world's ways." In the concluding stanza of the last completed canto,...hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, on the horison's verge—" we have a condensation of the refrain of the poet's philosophy; but the main drift... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...days; Th' unbounded hope, and heavenly ignorance Of what is call'd the world aud the world's ways." In b c 'Twlxt night and morn, on the horizon's verge "— we have a condensation of the refrain of the poet's... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pages
...he re-enters the same and dies ' (ch. 1). The language of Byron might have been used by Liio-tsze, Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. Nowhere do we read of death as an absolute termination of existence, as a... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. 2724 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 21 Between two worlds, life hovers like a star 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...keep it quiet, till it lolls asleep, and then the Care is over. ltfe. — JByron. Eife. — Byron. BETWEEN two worlds Life hovers like a star, "Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal... | |
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