Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken... An Introduction to Mathematics - 217. lappuseautors: Alfred North Whitehead - 1911 - 256 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| George Eliot - 1908 - 414 lapas
...finishing a quotation from Shelley (the comparison of the avalanche in his "Prometheus Unbound") — "As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round." The entrance of the newcomers broke the fixity of at[ 355 ] tention, and called for a re-arrangement of... | |
| Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - 1925 - 490 lapas
...smile. j. To suggest the incalculable power of an idea let loose among men: Hark! The rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass, Thrice sifted...great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. k. To suggest the relentless power of thought: And... | |
| Gerrit Dekker - 1926 - 268 lapas
...external actions by which they are expressed" 4): Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanchel whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds i) The Sensitive Plant I v. 20 vgg. 2) veral Canto VI str. XXX-XXXVII. 3) Poetical works p. 523. <)... | |
| University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1927 - 392 lapas
...the sun-awakened avalanche gathers on the mountain-tops, " Flake after flake in heaven-defying mind As thought by thought is piled till some great truth Is loosened and the nations echo round Shaken to their roots as do the mountains now." * 1 Republic. VI, 509 A.^ « Prometheus Unbound—... | |
| Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Arnold Lunn - 1927 - 328 lapas
...ravines, Satiates the listening wind, continuous, vast, Awful as silence. Hark ! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche ! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there 240 i Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth... | |
| Robert Metcalf Smith - 1928 - 538 lapas
...thaw-cloven ravines, Satiates the listening wind, continuous, vast, Awful as silence. Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass, Thrice sifted...great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. PANTHEA. Look how the gusty sea of mist is breaking... | |
| Lucien Price - 1928 - 368 lapas
...whole mountain land of peaks and valleys resounding with thuds and detonations. Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche ! whose mass, Thrice sifted...thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosed, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. The last echo dies... | |
| Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi - 1992 - 332 lapas
...describe his gathering power ironically echoes Asia's words on the process by which just perception builds "flake after flake, in Heaven-defying minds / As thought by thought is piled" (II. iii. 39-40) and so looks forward to the avalanche of changed perception about to sweep Jupiter... | |
| James Hepokoski - 1993 - 128 lapas
...paperback Transferred to digital printing 2003 AH for }oanna and Laura . . . Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass, Thrice sifted...great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Il.iii Art then is the... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 lapas
...walls, a howl Of cataracts from their thaw-cloven ravines Awful as silence. Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass, Thrice sifted...thought by thought is piled, till some great truth 40 Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. Panthea... | |
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