 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 - Page 88by Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Mary Richardson (ady.) - 1837 - 986 pages
...truly, that the mind itself gives to the outward world its power to cheer and to enliven, and that " We may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." The feelings of the mourning group on this occasion were very peculiar. They could scarcely indeed... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...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. ' O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is her wedding... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever, )n that green light that lingers in the west: may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within IV. O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours i« her wedding-garment,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...And what con these avail To lift the smothering weight from ofT my breast? It were a vain endeavor, rhyme When he had better far have alretch'd his limbs...to the inftuies Of shapes and sounds and shifting e withia IV. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live Oun is her... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1840 - 146 pages
...they are, for the most part, not my invention — been somewhat reduced in number and brilliancy. " We may not hope from outward forms to win, The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." just presentation of the given characters and events. Most of the external situations and effects have... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...intellect is evidently at work in the very rush of emotion. The poet has discovered that he cannot hope " from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." A new sentiment, the most solemn that visits the breast of humanity, is aroused by this reflective... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 pages
...intellect is evidently at work in the very rush of emotion. The poet has discovered that he cannot hope " from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." A new sentiment, the most solemn that visits the breast of humanity, is aroused by this reflective... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...intellect is evidently at work in the very rush of emotion. The poet has discovered that he cannot hope " from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." A new sentiment, the most solemn that visits the breast of humanity, is aroused by this reflective... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...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. O Lady 1 we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my bresst ? It were a vain endeavour, Thongh I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers...The passion and the life, whose fountains are within ! Oh, lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : — Ours is her... | |
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