 Or shall the tree be envious of the dove Because it cooeth, and hath snowy wings To wander wherewithal and find its joys ? We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower...  The Poetical Works of John Keats: In Two Parts - Page 64by John Keats - 1846Full view - About this book
 | HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER - 1901 - 520 pages
...which separates the disciple from the master. Keats summed up his poetic philosophy in the lines — " For 't is the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might," — and he was fain to see the operation of Nature's law by which one race of conquerors would dispossess... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - Authors, American - 1901 - 510 pages
...which separates the disciple from the master. Keats summed up his poetic philosophy in the lines — " For 't is the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might," — and he was fain to see the operation of Nature's law by which one race of conquerors would dispossess... | |
 | Education - 1903 - 712 pages
...treats the subject more largely in Hyperion and in the Ode on a Grecian Urn. In the first: "For 'tis the eternal law that first in beauty should be first in might." 4. Write a list of topics for outdoor study. What is the secret of a successful field lesson? To what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 458 pages
...294, note I. In the notes on Beauty Mr. Emerson quotes the line of Keats in Hyperion : — " For 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might." Page 2^4, note 2. To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...envious of the dove Because itcooeth, and hath snowy wings To wander wherewithal and find itsjoys ? f In right thereof : for 'tis the eternal law •• That first in beauty should be first in might... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of life - 1904 - 458 pages
...evil. Page 294, note I. In the notes on Beauty Mr. Emerson quotes the line of Keats in Hyperion: — " For 't is the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might." Page 294, note 2. To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1904 - 448 pages
...294, note I. In the notes on Beauty Mr. Emerson quotes the line of Keats in Hyperion : — " For 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might." Page 294, note 2. To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...envious of the dove Because it cooeth, and hath snowy wings To wander wherewithal and find its joys ? We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs Have...their beauty, and must reign In right thereof; for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might : Ye by that law, another race may... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - English poetry - 1905 - 236 pages
...wings To wander wherewithal and find its joys? We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs Have bared forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feather'd,...reign In right thereof; for 't is the eternal law — SVwrf first in beauty should be first in might: -¥ea, by that law, another race may drive '-Our... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - Immortality - 1905 - 76 pages
...a prophecy of the day of its fulfillment. The beauty now seen afar marks the coming of a new power. For 't is the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might. Love is to him no sad mourner weeping unavailing tears, — it is a great world-power. What he recognizes... | |
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