 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 378 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 - 1904 - 362 pages
...theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these. It divines afar off their comingIt says with the elder gods, — "As Heaven and Earth...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... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; ' n Page( : nor are we Thereby more conquer'd, than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 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... | |
 | 1905 - 682 pages
...they, the primeval gods, are an advance on the old blind forces of Chaos whom they dispossessed, — " So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power...excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness." Two other poems, which have won admiring praise in high places, are likewise fragments, the strain... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1905 - 238 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1907 - 794 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,... | |
 | Graham Hough - 1953 - 214 pages
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