 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 - 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...moves toward perfection, and no stage in this dialectical process is refuted merely because it is over: 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. This dispassionate observation... | |
 | 1877 - 926 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.... . for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might : Yea, by that law another race may drive Our conquerors to mourn as we do... | |
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