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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series - Page 147
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...beautiful ; So, on our heels a fresh perfection treads ; A power, more strong in beauty, born of us, And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : for, 'tis the eternal law, That first in beauty shall be first in might." 19. Therefore, within the ethnical...
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The Indicator, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass . In glory that old Darkness. The more imaginative parts of the poem are worthy of this sublime moral. Hyperion, the God of the Sun,...
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The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 126

1908 - 474 pages
...of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness. He ends with ' this is the truth, and let it be your balm.' The poem is a noble conception, founded...
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The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 554 pages
...of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : nor are we Thereby more conquer'd than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 6

1843 - 744 pages
...of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness: nor are we Thereby more conquer'd than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel...
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1845 - 332 pages
...beautiful ; So, on our heels a fresh perfection treads ; A power, more strong in beauty, born of us, And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : for, 'tis the eternal law, That first in beauty shall be first in might." Therefore, within the ethnical...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats: In Two Parts, Parts 1-2

John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : nor are we Thereby more conquer'd than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1847 - 280 pages
...of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness: nor are we Thereby more conquer'd than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 2

1849 - 544 pages
...consolation for all woes, — it is religion and power. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" — " 'T is the eternal law That first in Beauty shall be first in Might." The loves of Endymion and the sorrows of old Saturn, the ' dreams of Madeline, the conjurings of Lamia,...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : nor are we Thereby more conquered than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil...
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