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
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1900 - 1158 pages
...to her in the wilderness. She skipped the second page, reading only the quotation that stood out : " So on our heels a fresh perfection treads. A power...excel us, as we pass In glory that old darkness." Emotion overcame her: the lines radiated light, shimmered with infinite suggestiveness and promise.... | |
| John Keats - 1921 - 260 pages
...beautiful, " In will, in action free, companionship, 210 " 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 : nor are we 215 " Thereby more conquer'd, than by us the rule " Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the... | |
| 1906 - 634 pages
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| John Keats - 1909 - 212 pages
...beautiful, " In will, in action free, companionship, 210 " 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 : nor are we " Thereby more conquer'd, than by us the rule " Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull... | |
| John Keats - 1900 - 274 pages
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| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...and the Cid, and Sir Philip Sidney, and Washington, and every pure and valiant heart, who worshiped beauty by word and by deed. The persons who constitute...law, That first in beauty shall be first in might." From the essay on " Manners," MONTAIGNE; OR, THE SKEPTIC MONTAIGNE is the frankest and honestest of... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1902 - 850 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 conquered than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel with... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 386 pages
...fresh impulses. These are the creators of Fashion, which is an attempt to organize beauty of behavior. The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory,...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 - 1903 - 376 pages
...and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church : Scipio, and the Cid,1 and Sir Philip Sidney, and Washington, and every pure...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... | |
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