 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 1831870Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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,...to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : for, 'tis the eternal law, That first in beauty shall be first in might." 19. Therefore, within the... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty,...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...will, in action free, companionsh'p, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty,...excel us, as we pass . In glory that old Darkness. The more imaginative parts of the poem are worthy of this sublime moral. Hyperion, the God of the Sun,... | |
 | Zoology - 1908 - 474 pages
...Will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads A power more strong in beauty, born...to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness. He ends with ' this is the truth, and let it be your balm.' The poem is a noble conception, founded... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...will, in action free, companionship, ยป And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty,...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... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; 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 Thereby more conquer'd than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...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,...to 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...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,...to 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... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 348 pages
...will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty,...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... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1846 - 340 pages
...will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty,...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... | |
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