 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...growth ; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the soul shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear...her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's view. John Dryden, ALEXANDER'S FEAST; An Ode on St. Ctcitia's Day. TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...growth ; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain; And yet the soul shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear...up, and casts it outward To the world's open view. HUMAN LIFE. [From Aurcng-Zeoe, Act IV.] WHEN I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fool'd with hope,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...too, and full as vain; And yet the soul shat up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at hume sees nothing; But, like a mole in earth, busy and...up, and casts it outward To the world's open view. HUMAN LIFE. [From Aurrng-Zrbr, Act IV.] WHEN I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fool'd with hope,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Authors - 1887 - 408 pages
...growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear...blind, Works all her folly up and casts it outward In the world's open view."t The image is mixed and even contradictory, but the thought obtains grace... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literature, Modern - 1887 - 416 pages
...growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; Bnt, like a mole in earth, busy and blind. Works all her folly up and casts it outward In the world's... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literature - 1890 - 386 pages
...growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear...blind, Works all her folly up and casts it outward In the world's open view.' ' 1 The image is mixed and even contradictory, but the thought obtains grace... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 410 pages
...growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too and full as vain; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear...blind, Works all her folly up and casts it outward In the world's open view.''' The image is mixed and even contradictory, but the thought obtains grace... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 416 pages
...appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut np in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home...mole in earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly np and casts it outward In the world's open view." ' The image is mixed and even contradictory, but... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1891 - 412 pages
...Shinar, stately with towers, round which the Deluge of ages roars in vain. 40. And yet the soul, shut tip in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home...blind, Works all her folly up and casts it outward In the world's open view. — Dryden. 41. But after all, he [Dryden] is best upon a level, — table-land,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1891 - 384 pages
...theirs, And full as craving too and fall as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing go clear abroad, at home sees nothing ; But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly np and casts it outward In the world's open view." 1 The image is mixed and even contradictory, but... | |
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Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; But, like a mole in earth, busy and... 
