 So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated 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.  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 891893Full view - About this book
 | Harold Bloom - 1980 - 436 pages
...that the "stale perfections" of the vanquished Titans must yield to the upstart Olympians: "So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, / A power more strong...excel us, as we pass / In glory that old Darkness." To pass from Keats's "fresh perfection" to Stevens' "stale perfections" is to confront a darker anxiety... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - 2009 - 784 pages
...beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong...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. Should the soil quarrel... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...chiefs; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth, In form and shape compact and beautiful; So, on our heels a fresh perfection treads; A power, more strong...excel us, as 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... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 pages
...beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong...to excel us, as we pass In glory that old darkness; nor are we Thereby more conquered than by us the rule Of shapeless chaos. Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel... | |
 | John Barnard - 1987 - 192 pages
...the parents of the Titans themselves, so the Titans cannot be the last (lines 182-201): ... on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us ... (II. 212-14) The Olympians 'tower' above their parents, the Titans, in beauty, and . . . 'tis the... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - 1990 - 429 pages
...beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong...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... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...'ripeness' and his belief that the older gods 'fall by course of Nature's law' (H II, 181), that on our heels a fresh perfection treads A power more strong in beauty, born of us And tated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness . . . (HII. 2 1 2-1; s) All this must go if... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1993 - 330 pages
...Oceanus' justification of the fall of the titans within the context of Keats's own time: So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong...to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness. (ii.212-15) At the very least, this is a calm recognition that political revolutions are inevitable... | |
 | Stuart M. Sperry - 1994 - 376 pages
...beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong...to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness. (ii. 188-90, 194-215) There is, indeed, a certain justification for the sea-god's claim that, while... | |
 | John Keats - 1994 - 554 pages
...naked truths And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty . . . ... on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us ... [Hyperion, 1I,203-14] This can be read as a statement of faith in beauty: the replacement gods,... | |
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