It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the beauty before us, but a wild effort to reach the beauty above. Inspired by an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave... Novels - Page 21by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892Full view - About this book
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 pages
...to the immortality of Man. It is at once a consequence and an indication of his perennial existence. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us — but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...to the immortality of Man. It is at once a consequence and an indication of his perennial existence. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us — but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 388 pages
...to the immortality of Man. It is at onee a eonsequenee and an indieation of his perennial existenee. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreeiation of the Beauty before us — but a wild effort to reaeh the Beauty above. Inspired... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 pages
...to the immortality of Man. It is at once a consequence and an indication of his perennial existence. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us — but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 580 pages
...wrestled against the new passion: but, stern as his nature was, he could not conquer it. He loved, he confessed his love, and Gertrude returned it. In a...moth for the star" — it is the love of the soul ! visions that belong to the children of the Rhine. Her imagination, more romantic than classic, yearned... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 pages
...to the immortality of Man. It is at once a consequence and an indication of his perennial existence. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us — but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1867 - 92 pages
...wrestled against the new passion ; but, stern as his nature was, he could not conquer it. He loved, he confessed his love, and Gertrude returned it. In a...of the moth for the star" — it is the love of the •oui ! Gertrude was advised by the faculty to try a southern climate ; but Gertrude was the daughter... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 pages
...to the immortality of Man. It is at once a consequence and an indication of his perennial existence. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us — but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...to the immortality of Man. It is at once a consequence and an indication of his perennial existence. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us — but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...to the immortality of man. It is at once a consequence and an indication of his perennial existence. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the beauty before us, but a wild effort to reach the beauty above. Inspired... | |
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