 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858 - 806 Seiten
...human worth, the fullest of foul suspicions concerning our neighbours, and the least pervaded with The worship the heart lifts above, And the heavens...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. When, in a word, we are most inclined to sneer, and are least conscious of the overarching Infinite,... | |
 | 1858 - 398 Seiten
...instance of his manner of treating this difficult subject : — " I can give not what men call love, " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ?" This avoiding of that minute description of particular charms was in Shelley the result of his perfect... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 Seiten
...too often profaned For me to profane it ; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother,...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? 1H21. LORD BYRON 1788—1824. MARY CHAWORTI1. BYRON spent the summer vacation of 1808 at Newstead... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 Seiten
...too often profaned For me to profane it ; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother,...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our soirow ? 1821. LORD BYRON 1788—1824. MART CHAWORTI1. BYRON spent the summer vacation of 1803 at Newstead... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 Seiten
...too often profaned For me to profane it ; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother,...night for the morrow. The devotion to something afar LORD BYRON 1788 — 1824. MAET CHAWOKTH. BYEON spent the summer vacation of 1803 at Eewstead Abbey,... | |
 | Chayleigh - 1862 - 350 Seiten
...too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. One hope is too like despair . . For prudence to smother,...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?" He looked up when he had finished and turned towards her, his dark eyes flashing fire. She was unmoved,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1862 - 470 Seiten
...too often profaned For me to profain it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother,...another. I can give not what men call love, But wilt them accept not 'The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not: The desire of the moth... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 542 Seiten
...forward or wildly backward, but vainly striving to close on something which eludes its grasp. " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow," — that is the true burden of every song. Sometimes the gaze is fixed on tlie future, and sometimes... | |
 | 1863 - 542 Seiten
...forward or wildly backward, but vainly striving to close on something which eludes its grasp. " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow," — that is the true burden of every song. Sometimes the gaze is fixed on the future, and sometimes... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1870 - 626 Seiten
...describes the passionate yearning for the Unseen which seems never quite extinct in the soul of man : "The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow." '. Augustine is a memorable example of the same phenomenon. understood. Annihilation is generally used... | |
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ONE word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother, And pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what men call love,... 
