 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...receive but what we give, Aod in our life alone does nature live • 49 Dura i> her wedding-garment, cure her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To ihe |«or loveless ever-ansious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, Л light,... | |
 | Maria Jane McIntosh - 1849 - 420 pages
...III. " Socrate s'y trouverait pris Malgr£ sa philosophie." RAOIKK. " We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is her wedding-garment — ours her shroud."*COLERIDGE. MORE inveterate ill-humor than that of Everard Irving could scarce have resisted... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...lady.' we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd, Ah.' from the soul itself must issue forth, A light,... | |
 | Margaret Gatty - 1851 - 170 pages
...her fteps homewards, fhe repeated to herfelf foftly but with much pathos, Coleridge's lines: * " O lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life...nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her flmnid ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, • Coleridge's " Deje&ion : an Ode." Than that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 386 pages
...wedding garment, or so powerless and extinct as to seem palled in her shroud, — in either case, ' 0, Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 384 pages
...wedding garment, or so powerless and extinct as to seem palled in her shroud, — in either case, ' 0, Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our 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... | |
 | 1851 - 902 pages
...the blessed promises of immortality. Man is not doomed to be for ever the slave of material being. would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate, cold world allowed To the poor, loncless, ever-anxious crowd — Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1852 - 604 pages
...THOUGHT OF PARADISE. " We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is hei wedding-garment, ours her shroud ; And, would we aught...behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
...fountains are within^. O'Lady! we jreceive but what jwe give, And in our life alone does nature live T Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxipus crowd, Ah ! \£om the s^uHtself must jssue. forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...fountains are withu IV. 0 Lady ! we receive but what we give. And in our life alone does nature live : 48 or hit eelf: "Slop, Christian passer-by! «top, child of God ! And read with gentle breast Iban that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, 1 Ah ! fiom the soul... | |
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To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds... 
