| 1828 - 814 pages
...have blown, To the lota tree, springing by Alla's throne, Whose flowers have a soul in every leaf ! Joy, joy, for ever ! my task is done — The gates are passed, and heaven is won !' Moore. THE BETROTHED. Behold a meeting scene Of early love, and then infer its worth. It was an... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1845 - 298 pages
...Angel threw From Heaven's Gate, to hail that tear Her harbinger of glory near! " Joy, joy forever ! my task is done — " The Gates are passed, and Heaven is won ! " O ! am I not happy ? I am, I am — " To thee, sweet Eden ! how dark and sad "Are the diamond turrets... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1846 - 288 pages
...Peri exclaims on finding that old talisman and hackneyed poetical machine, " a penitent tear " — " Joy, joy for ever ! my task is done — The gates are passed, and Heaven is won ! Oh ! am I not happy t I am, I am — To thee, sweet Eden ! how dark and sad Are the diamond turrets... | |
| Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1847 - 374 pages
...more we feel its weight when fretting under the united curbs of impatience and deferred expectation. Having philosophically made up my mind to endure some...the sound of a firm, measured footstep was followed hy the erect form and military figure of one whom I at once recognized as an old fellow-campaigner.... | |
| 1853 - 66 pages
...of Broadway, and repeating to myself at every step, the familiar lines : " Joy ! joy, forever ! — my task is done—- The gates are passed, and Heaven is won !" Not that my task was done, or heaven by any means won, but my spirit was overcharged with joy, and... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...Peri exclaims on finding that old talisman and hackneyed poetical machine, " a penitent tear " — " Joy, joy for ever ! my task is done — The gates are passed, and Heaven is won ! Oh ! am I not happy 1 I am, I am — To thec, sweet Eden ! how dark and sad Are the diamond turrets... | |
| Antonio Balbín de Unquera - 1862 - 264 pages
...of repentance fall? Thou foul tby fiery plagues within ¡ Ohe heavenly drop had dispelled them all ! My task is done The gates are passed , and Heaven is won.» con las siguientes y espresivas palabras : « No se pasaba dia sin que hiciese alguna visita á los... | |
| Daniel Cornish - 1863 - 172 pages
...the angel host, and passes over the threshold of her ancient home, singing — " Joy ! joy for ever I my task is done, The gates are passed, and heaven is won." The idea of the poem is supremely beautiful, but not more beautiful than true ; for our divine Redeemer... | |
| Frances Power Cobbe - 1864 - 234 pages
...longing, which had once brought many a tear, to say, like the spirit ascending from that flowery plain Joy, joy for ever, my task is done, The gates are passed, and Heaven is won. "When shall we all shake off this effeminate yearning for peace and bliss, and know that it ought to... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...bright smile the Angel threw From Heaven's gate, to hail that tear Her harbinger of glory near ! ' J°y, joy for ever ! my task is done — The Gates are passed, and Heaven is won ! ' JAMES HOGG: 1770-1835. James Hogg, 'the Ettrick Shepherd,' was born in the vale of Ettrick, Selkirkshire.... | |
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