 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - 1868 - 302 pages
...racking pains and overwhelming griefs, death may, and often does, appear the lesser evil, but fTis life— whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life— not...which we pant : More life, and fuller, that we want. But death will come, as came the Winter, surely, inevitably ; and as we See the leaves around us falling,... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1866 - 304 pages
...crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " T is life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." I ceased, and sat as one forlorn. Then said the voice, in quiet scorn, " Behold, it is the... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1866 - 344 pages
...with human breath *- Hath ever truly wished for death. '"Tis life of which our nerves are scant, 0 life, —not death, — for which we pant, More life, and fuller, that we want ! " This life of the soul, which is both light and heat, | intelligence and power, — this swift-ascending... | |
 | 1885 - 494 pages
...Why had I believed that all life lived but to die, when, in truth, it died only to be reborn? " 'Tis life, not death, for which we pant— More life, and fuller that we want," • DOCTOR KBUGER. Ml Why had 1 sought to keep a mass of matter from being recreated, and staid and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 pages
...breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, 0 life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." 1 ceased, and sat as one forlorn. Then said the voice, in quiet scorn, " Behold, it is the... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1867 - 438 pages
...perversion as to turn from the djing Redeemer on the cross to the mournful mother beside it, — " 'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not...which we pant — More life and fuller that we want." And ours is a religion of life ; our Lord the Prince of life, the Bread of Life, the Life itself, who... | |
 | John Kitto - 1867 - 536 pages
...it is this deadness which our hearts acknowledge when it is spoken of in such words as Tennyson's, " Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not...death for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." Finally, the deadness of man is at the very root of the doctrines of the Bible. "To be carnally-minded... | |
 | 1867 - 544 pages
...it is this deadness which our hearts acknowledge when it is spoken of in such words as Tennyson's, " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life,...death for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." Finally, the deadness of man is at the very root of the doctrines of the Bible. "To be carnally-minded... | |
 | John Kitto - 1867 - 542 pages
...it is this deadness which our hearts acknowledge when it is spoken of in such words as Tennyson's, " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life,...death for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." Finally, the deadness of man is at the very root of the doctrines of the Bible. "To be carnally-minded... | |
 | John R. Vernon - 1867 - 338 pages
..."Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis LIFE, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life,...death, for which we pant, More life, and fuller, that I want." And a great warrior, of long ago, one who had less cause than most to fear death, yet said... | |
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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. ' 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want. 
