 To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.  Papers on literature and art - Página 88por Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 páginas
...lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west. I may...passion and the life, whose fountains are within." In another strain of the same ode the important imaginative truth is set forth :— " From the soul... | |
 | James Thomson - 1860 - 348 páginas
...if his mind be world-rusted and insensible. 1 It were a vain endeavor Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west ; I may not hope from outward forma to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.' And hence the extreme and melancholy... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1860 - 358 páginas
...have left behind, had I not outlived all regrets — but one — for there, although I vainly sought from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within; all feeling was not yet worn out of my heart : I was not then blinded nor stupefied by sorrow and weakness... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...always seen : Yon crescent Moon as fix'd as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue ; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel...passion and the life, whose fountains are within, O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 390 páginas
...starless lake of blue ; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, notjeel how beautiful they are ! III. It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. IV. 0 Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 páginas
...My genial spirits fail ; And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 0 Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1861 - 384 páginas
...Ours is her wedding garment, ours, her shroud. ' It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may...passion and the life whose fountains are within.' This was one, and the most common shape of extinguished power, from which Coleridge fled to the great... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...the mind to arrive at its highest good. Charle» Bray. F EELLVO3 — tincturing the internal World. ! may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 0 Ludy ! we receive but what we give, Aid in our life alone does nature live : 'J irs is her wedding... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 272 páginas
...what we give, And in our life alone does nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud. " It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...passion and the life whose fountains are within." This was one, and the most common shape of extinguished power from which Coleridge fled to the great... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 270 páginas
...what we give, And in our life alone does nature live; Oura is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud. " It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...passion and the life whose fountains are within." This was one, and the most common shape of extinguished power from which Coleridge fled to the great... | |
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