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: Second Series - Page 147by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 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
...about the gates and offices of temples. Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy hornage of parody. The forms of politeness universally express...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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