 So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 445edited by - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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,...: for, 'tis the eternal law, That first in beauty shall be first in might." 19. Therefore, within the ethnical circle of good society, there is a narrower... | |
 | 1843 - 750 pages
...But eagles golden-feathered, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right thereof; for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might : Yea, by that law, another race may drive Our conquerors to mourn as we do now. Have ye beheld the... | |
 | 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 more...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
...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 more...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
...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 more...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
...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 more...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... | |
 | 1843 - 744 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 more...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1845 - 332 pages
...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,...: for, 'tis the eternal law, That first in beauty shall be first in might." Therefore, within the ethnical circle of good society, there is a narrower... | |
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