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... soul into the soul may flow Though it to body first repair.2 This passage is subtle , almost dialectic . A keen , sinuous , reasoning mind is playing with its powers . Except for the implied personification of the body regarded apart ...
... soul into the soul may flow Though it to body first repair.2 This passage is subtle , almost dialectic . A keen , sinuous , reasoning mind is playing with its powers . Except for the implied personification of the body regarded apart ...
Page xxxi
... soul , a term of the old astro - philosophy ; the body is not ' dross ' but an alloy , ' alchemical terms ; the ' in- fluence of heaven is the use of that word in an astro- logical sense , meaning " the radiation of power from the stars ...
... soul , a term of the old astro - philosophy ; the body is not ' dross ' but an alloy , ' alchemical terms ; the ' in- fluence of heaven is the use of that word in an astro- logical sense , meaning " the radiation of power from the stars ...
Page xxxiii
... soul and body , two grains more , I'll add.1 With all the lapses into bad taste and extravagance to which the passion for ' conceit ' led , and notwithstanding a frank confession that the verse of amateur poets like Love- lace and ...
... soul and body , two grains more , I'll add.1 With all the lapses into bad taste and extravagance to which the passion for ' conceit ' led , and notwithstanding a frank confession that the verse of amateur poets like Love- lace and ...
Page xliii
... soul- animating strains . ' Yet with what homely material is the effect produced ! Not only is there not a single purple patch in the wording , but of thought , or image , all that there is is a borrowed thought , and one repeatedly ...
... soul- animating strains . ' Yet with what homely material is the effect produced ! Not only is there not a single purple patch in the wording , but of thought , or image , all that there is is a borrowed thought , and one repeatedly ...
Page xlvi
... soul , before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus , my Master , in whose service I have now found perfect freedom ; desire him to read it , and then , if he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul , let it ...
... soul , before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus , my Master , in whose service I have now found perfect freedom ; desire him to read it , and then , if he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul , let it ...
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Page 169 - Dear, beauteous death; the Jewel of the Just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!
Page 80 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 134 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates — When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 22 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Page 217 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 159 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 218 - Grand Chorus As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the Blest above; So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Page 21 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 12 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again; So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night.
Page 23 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even...