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... Essays - Page 145by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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
...theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these. It divines afar off their corning. It says with the elder gods, — " As Heaven and Earth...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 ethnical... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 - 1847 - 280 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 Quarrel... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1847 - 556 pages
...will, in action free, companionship. And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a frosh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to ejcel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : nor are we Thereby more conquer'd than by ns the... | |
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