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... Works - Page 114by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| 1964 - 820 pages
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| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1907 - 646 pages
...unsurpassed in English : ' We fall by course of Nature's law, not force Of thunder, or of Jove. . . . . . . On our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more.... . For 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might.' This is true mysticism, the mysticism Keats shares with Burke and Carlyle,... | |
| 1992 - 410 pages
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| Chee Jam Loh - 1968 - 120 pages
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| Cecil Gray - 1928 - 354 pages
...Zeus, Apollo, and the rest, they might well say, in the superb words of Oceanus in Keats's Hyperion : On our heels a fresh perfection treads A power more...beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In beauty that old darkness ; nor are we Thereby more conquered than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos.... | |
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