 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 pages
...world and blessed sunshine there, And drink, as from a cup Of joy, with thirsty lips, the open air. Far other light than that of day there shone Upon...travellers, entering Padalon. They too in darkness enter'd on their way ; But far before the car, A glow, as of a fiery furnace light, Fill'd all before... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pages
...light than that of day there shone Upon the travellers, entering Padalon. They too in darkness enter'd on their way; But far before the car, A glow, as of...light, Fill'd all before them. 'Twas a light which made A thing of comfort, and the sight, dismay'd, Shrunk inward from the molten atmosphere. Their way was... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 352 pages
...World and blessed sunshine there ; And drink, as from a cup Of joy, with thirsty lips, the open air. 8. Far other light than that of day there shone Upon...before the Car, A glow, as of a fiery furnace light, Filled all before them. 'Twas a light which made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort ; and the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 338 pages
...World and blessed sunshine there; And drink, as from a cup Of joy, with thirsty lips, the open air. 2. They, too, in darkness entered on their way; But,...before the Car, A glow, as of a fiery furnace light, Filled all before them. 'Twas a light which made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort; and the... | |
 | 1863 - 318 pages
...than just served to heighten ita contrast with darkness, and not to think of Southey's ' Padalon.' - 'Twas a light which made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort, and the sight, dismay'd, Shrunk inward from the molten atmosphere.' " The day after our arrival off Saugor, the sun... | |
 | 1864 - 742 pages
...indulges. " Padalon " is the Hindoo Inferno, and Yamen, the god of the dead, is its sovereign : — For other light than that of day there shone Upon the...before the car A glow, as of a fiery furnace light, Filled all before them. "I was a light which made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort, and the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...watchful night, For all her sorrows, all her tears, An over-payment of delight ! THE ENTRANCE TO Par other light than that of day there shone Upon the...before the Car, A glow, as of a fiery furnace light, Filled all before them. 'Twas a light which made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort, and the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 488 pages
...We will quote a few lines and close our criticism, though our subject is far from being exhausted. " Far other light than that of day there shone Upon...of a fiery furnace light, Fill'd all before them. 'Twasa light which made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort, and the sight, dismay 'd, Shrunk... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 pages
...examples among his shorter poems of this peculiarity. THE APPROACH TO PADALON, THE HELL OF THE HINDOOS. "Far other light than that of day there shone Upon the travellers, entering Fadalon. They, too, in darkness entering on their way, But far before the car A glow, as of a fiery... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...mortals to Padalon, or the Indian Hades, is equal in grandeur to any passage which he ever perused : oved sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, We...ne'er been broken-hearted. Fare-thee-weel, thou fi entering on their way, But far before the car A glow, as of a fiery furnace light. Filled all before... | |
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Twas a light which made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort ; and the sight, dismayed, Shrunk inward from the molten atmosphere. 
