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" 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... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Mantle of Elijah: A Novel

Israel Zangwill - 1900 - 510 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....
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1900 - 500 pages
...and 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...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 Chacxg. Say, doth the dull soil...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 101

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1900 - 1156 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....
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The Complete Works of John Keats: Lamia. Isabella and posthumous poems to 1818

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...
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Keats Poems Published in 1820

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...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 4

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...
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The English Poets: Wordsworth to Tennyson

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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

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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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical ..., Volume 3

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...
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