 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.  Art, Literature, and the Drama - Page 86by Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 449 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...My genial spirits fail ! And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast 1 It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 pages
...his inward being be asleep, if his nind be world-rusted and insensible. " It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever, On that green light...passion and the life, whose fountains are within." And hence the extreme and melancholy beauty of that passage in John Foster's writings, where he speaks... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 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 Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pages
...through nature as a study, if his inward being be asleep, if his mind be world-rusted and insensible. " It were a vain endeavour Though I should gaze for...passion and the life, whose fountains are within." And hence the extreme and melancholy beauty of that passage in John Foster's writings, where he speaks... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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. IV. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 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. rv. 0 Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 pages
...And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. IV. Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd. Ah! from the soul... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from ofl* my breast t It were a vain endeavor. Though I should gaze for ever. On that green light that lingers in the vtva ; I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are withn... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: ] > W] LN #n< OV<}ɓ 7]8r _ ҿ\ O g ܅ : k ^} w:/} w IV. O lady.' we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live: Ours is her wedding... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 384 pages
...life alone does nature live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud. ' It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light...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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