 As Heaven and Earth are fairer, fairer far Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth In form and shape compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer...  The Mantle of Elijah: A Novel - Page 290by Israel Zangwill - 1900 - 456 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...once chiefs ; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth, In form and shape compact and beautiful ; So, on our heels a fresh perfection treads ; A power,...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... | |
 | 1843 - 750 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionsh'p, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power...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,... | |
 | 1908 - 474 pages
...compact and beautiful, In Will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads A power...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... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 554 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power...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... | |
 | John Keats - 1841 - 254 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power...beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass Thereby more conquer'd than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...once chiefs ; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth, In form and shape compact and beautiful ; So, on our heels a fresh perfection treads ; A power,...to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : for, 't is the eternal law, That first in beauty shall be first in might." Therefore, within the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...once chiefs ; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth, In form and shape compact and beautiful ; So, on our heels a fresh perfection treads ; A power,...to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : for, 't is the eternal law, That first in beauty shall be first in might." Therefore, within the... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 348 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power...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... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power...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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