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" 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. "
The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record - Page 410
1834
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Carlington Castle : A Tale of the Jesuits

Hamilton - 1854 - 344 pages
...what ' -.in the. e avail, To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It wt re a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light...The passion and the life whose fountains are within. CoLKRXDOK NEXT morning, before Dora rose, a note was brought her from Lady Fitzgerald. The sudden illness...
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Literary Reminiscences: From The Autobiography of an English Opium ..., Volume 1

Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 380 pages
...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...to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within.7 This was one, and the most common shape of extinguished power, from which Coleridge (led to...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pages
...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. • * <t • * From the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud, Enveloping...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...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. # -s- •& % -#From the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud, Enveloping...
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Lectures on English literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers iu the West: I may not hope, from outward forms, to win...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. • -S s:s:s » * From the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud, Enveloping...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...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 not hope, from outward forms, to win Tho passion and the life, whose fountains are within. * * * aa From the soul itself must issue forth...
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The Seasons

James Thomson - 1856 - 344 pages
...his mind be world-rusted and insensible. ' It •were a vain endeavor Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west ; . I...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...
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The Seasons

James Thomson - 1856 - 346 pages
...if his mind be world-rusted and insensible. ' 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.' And hence the extreme and melancholy beauty of that passage in John Foster's writings, where he speaks...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever Ou that green light that lingers in the west : I may...forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains wo within. IV. 0 Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 456 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 ever On that grewi light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to will The passion and the...
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