 O pure of heart ! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5411834Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...element ! O pure of heart ! thou need'st net ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be 1 What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this...hour, Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower,Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power, Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower, A new Earth... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1906 - 320 pages
...own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! O pure of heart ! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What,...beautiful and beauty-making power. Joy, virtuous Lady ! Joy_ that ne'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life's effluence,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 pages
...sounds the life and element ! O pure of heart ! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music of the soul may be ! What, and wherein it doth exist,...luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power. 144 Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy that ne'er was given Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life and... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 pages
...overcoming this lethal division within himself and from the outer world is the state which he calls "joy," Joy that ne'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life's effluence. . . . "Joy" is a central and recurrent term in the Romantic vocabulary which often has a specialized... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 602 pages
...decisively of this opinion, if we may judge from the fifth stanza of the ode on " Dejection : " — " This light, this glory, this fair, luminous mist,...beautiful and beauty-making power, Joy, virtuous Lady I joy that ne'er was given Save to the pure, and in their purest hour ; Life and life's effluence,... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - Romanticism - 1990 - 318 pages
...of "wedding Nature to us" and giving us "in dower / A new Earth and new Heaven" is a passing grace: "Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy that ne'er was given, / Save to the pure, and in their purest hour" (68-69, 64-65). The inclination of Romantic art, responding to the gravitational pull of a far-off... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element! v. O pure of heart! thou need'st not ask of me 60 What this strong music in the soul may be! What, and wherein it doth exist, 41 smothering] smoth'ring TJ, H, Ll, MP, L4, 1817 44 that lingers] which lingers H, L4 46/47 no break... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...element! O pure of heart! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be! 60 What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this...given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, 65 Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power, Which... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 2002 - 452 pages
...pursuing the emotional state indicative of creation on either the primary or secondary level. He idemifies this "light. this glory. this fair luminous mist. /This beautiful and beauty,making power," and his various other metaphors for that which issues from consciousness, with one emotional state:... | |
 | Etienne L. G. E. Kuypers - Civilization, Modern - 2007 - 379 pages
...Tegelijkertijd staat het begrip vreugde centraal in de Romantiek: "O pure ofheart! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be! What, and...beauty-making power. Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy that ne 'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life' s effluence, cloud at... | |
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