 | Maḥmūd ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm Shabistarī - 1876 - 146 pages
...Divine centre whence he came, and to remind him of his primal covenant. As Wordsworth says, the soul that rises with us, our life's star, has had elsewhere its setting, and Nature's priest is still haunted by visions of his antenatal glories. As man saw God at the beginning,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1883 - 464 pages
...transmigration ? Wordsworth long ago declared that — " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." And Tennyson also suggests, — " For how should I for certain hold, Because my memory is so... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1883 - 466 pages
...transmigration ? Wordsworth long ago declared that — " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." And Tennyson also suggests, — " For how should I for certain hold, Because my memory is so... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1892 - 516 pages
...the soul within us must have existed before. ' Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.' But however convinced we may be of the soul's eternal existence, we shall always remain ignorant... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1894 - 222 pages
...two, three, or four years of our present life ? The belief expressed by Wordsworth that ' The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar,' is possibly by this time a general belief; but the belief which is based on it, that our star... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1883 - 456 pages
...transmigration ? Wordsworth long ago declared that — " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." Tennyson also suggests, — " For how should I for certain hold, Because my memory is so cold,... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 pages
...called one of the most remarkable in literature : Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar ; Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness ; But trailing clouds of glory do we... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1904 - 232 pages
...two, three, or four years of our present life ? The belief expressed by Wordsworth that ' The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar,' is possibly by this time a general belief; but the belief which is based on it, that our star... | |
 | William Juvenal Colville - 1906 - 368 pages
...— Victor, through death ! " — SCHELLING. " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And comelh from afar, Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory,... | |
 | Mrs. Margaret Bloodgood Peeke - 1908 - 228 pages
...expressed this blindness of the soul, and forgetfulness of all that previously belonged to it. "The soul that rises with us our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting and cometh from afar. Not in entire forget fulness, and not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we... | |
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us our life's star has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar... 
