 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 Seiten
...stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous: — but must needs confess That 't is a living thing, Strode after me. With trembling oa.rs I turned, And through the silent water st tusks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. — Man is of dust: ethereal hopes are his,... | |
 | James McCosh - 1851 - 526 Seiten
...seek, Icarus-like, to rise by earthly means, his flight may only make his fall the more lamentable. " The most difficult of tasks to keep, Heights which the soul is competent to gain." — WORDSWORTH. Nor is our argument exhausted. The difficulties are seen to be immeasurably increased,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 Seiten
...hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosen'd from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to...keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Man is of dust: ethereal hopes are his, Which, when they should sustain themselves aloft Want due consistence... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from the world, I deem not arduous: — but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to...keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Wordsworth. Do what he will, he cannot realize Half he conceives — the glorious vision flies; Go... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 292 Seiten
...hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to...keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Man is of dust ; ethereal hopes are his, Which, when they should sustain themselves aloft, Want due... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 Seiten
...heaven, are crowded on (: clogged :) by base stufi' (: matter:). 55ft Stofj tpirb bent ®eifl .... TU a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the...keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. — Man is of dost ; ethereal hopes sire his, Which, when they should sustain themselves aloft, Want... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 394 Seiten
...hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to...desires ; And the most difficult of tasks to keep tjeightswhich the soul is competent to gain. — Man isof dust : ethereal hopes are his, Which, when... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 Seiten
...stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous: — but must needs confess That 't is a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the...keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. — Man is of dust: ethereal hopes are his, Which, when they should sustain themselves aloft. Want... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 Seiten
...hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosen'd from the world, I deem not arduous; l/.'.t must needs confess, That 'tis a thing impossible to...keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Wordsworth. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dews shall... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 Seiten
...foreign, is ever clinging to thi noblest conception, fyc.] — " But must needs confess That 't is a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the...keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. — Man is of dust; ethereal hopes are his, Which, when they should sustain themselves aloft, Want... | |
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tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires, And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. 
