 Man is of dust: ethereal hopes are his, Which, when they should sustain themselves aloft, Want due consistence; like a pillar of smoke, That with majestic energy from earth Rises; but, having reached the thinner air, Melts, and dissolves, and is no longer...  The Mourner's Book - Page 155by Lady, A Lady - 1836 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1875 - 336 pages
...theology may easily draw even a great man from the self-subsistency of pure human religion. It is " The most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. " The succeeding Quakers were still more easily satisfied with the poor ideas which the Christian theology... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Publishers' bindings - 1875 - 300 pages
...circumstances to which I owe it, so as to repeat the experiment or put myself in the conditions. " T is the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain." I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars, in so many countries,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...And stand in freedom loosenM from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That 'tis m, While maids and matrons on his name Shall call...Then rose the cry of females, shrill As goss-hawk's bis, Which, when they should sustain themselves aloft Want due consistence ; like a pillar of smoke,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Religion - 1876 - 414 pages
...vulgar prejudice. Its brief history may have illustrated the truth of Wordsworth's lines, " That 'tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the...keep Heights which the Soul is competent to gain." The heights were gained nevertheless, and kept long enough for a view of the land of promise ; and... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - Nature in literature - 1876 - 278 pages
...And stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the...soul's desires ; And the most difficult of tasks to heep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. GOLDEN DAYS. O OLDEN days — where are they ? \J... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...circumstances to which I owe it, so as to repeat the experiment or put myself in the conditions. " 'T is the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain." I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars, in so many countries,... | |
 | Sarah Frances Smiley - Bible - 1876 - 352 pages
...He can give them this choice inheritance. Yet we are taught also by this record that it is indeed, " The most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. " Joshua had already taken Hebron ; but now it needed to be retaken by Caleb, and yet again by David.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...And stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess, That 'tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires, And tne most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Man is of dust : ethereal... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desire ; \Vordnoailh. 214. ASPIRATION. Heavenward THE bird, let loose in eastern skies, When hastening fondly... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 558 pages
...poet, whose words are often most instructive, confesses that we may reach heights we cannot hold: — " And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain."' Our nation found it so. Only a few days after the great Declaration in the name of " the People," Articles... | |
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