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" 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 Quarterly Review - Page 445
edited by - 1907
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...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 more...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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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 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 in beauty, horn of us, And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : for, 't is the eternal law,...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

1885 - 686 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 more...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...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1885 - 324 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; 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 conquered, than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...and IH-.Ttiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer lit:s: So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born ul us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness: nor are we Therehy more conquered...
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Preacher and Homiletic Monthly, Volume 12

1886 - 572 pages
...things are of fcood report." There is real poetry in the Bible and in the religion of Christ; for it is "the eternal law, that first in beauty should be first in might." Among books which should be found in a minister's library and diligently read, there might be less...
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The English Poets: Wordsworth to Rossetti. 2d ed., rev

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1888 - 698 pages
...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 more...born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory tha* old Darkness : nor are we Thereby more conquered than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say,...
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A Third Poetry Book

1889 - 552 pages
...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 more...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...
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The Overland Monthly

1889 - 706 pages
...may not be lost, severity of speech, the dual severity which admits no flaw, which is perfection — for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might. Such is a meager outline of the poet's equipment. In a word, for this working from the inside to the...
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Marvel

Duchess - 1889 - 382 pages
...Wriothesley ; and I shall always feel the keenest interest in you and your — honour" CHAPTER XXXIV. '"Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might." THE word rang in his ears as he left the house. His honour \ He breathed more freely as he got out...
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