Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but, to converse with heaven, This is not easy : to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That... The Quarterly Review - Page 327edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...put of me that flags, Through sinful choice; or dread necessity, On human nature from ahove imposed. 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but to converse with Heaven, This is not easy; to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosen'd from this world,... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...that flap, Tbrough sinful choice ; or dread necessity, On human nature from ahove imposed. Tis, hy , And show'da kindness she disdain'd to crave. Frugal and rich the man, and frugal grew T ; to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosen 'd from this... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...to be life, and prove too often in action, that we value every thing in life more than his favor 1 " 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise...but to converse with heaven — This is not easy." Yet let us seek that spirituality of mind which renders it possible — which, at once satisfied and... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...part of me that flags, Through sinful choice ; or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise...but, to converse with heaven — This is not easy : — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from... | |
| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...part of me that fla^. Through sinful choice ; or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise...but, to converse with heaven — This is not easy : — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...part of me that flags, Through sinful choice ; or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise...but, to converse with heaven — This is not easy : — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from... | |
| 1846 - 352 pages
...performance waits not. Let it be granted, if you will, that there is a beauty of idea and feeling which m&y justify the absence of all other beauties of art —...same drawings and fresco. ' 'Tis, by comparison, an easv task Earth to despise ; but to converse with rfeaven — This is not easy.' It is easy to depict... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...converse, which mind, soul, and heart, Do, with united urgency, require, What more, that may not perish?" " 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but to converse with heav'n, This is not easy : — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, — , And... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1850 - 620 pages
...me that flags, Through sinful choice ; or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. 'T is, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ;" but, to converse with heaven — This is not easy : — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - English literature - 1851 - 400 pages
...lamentably blind to the great ends for which the ability to dare and to suffer were bestowed. " "Pis by comparison — an easy task Earth to despise — but to converse with Heaven That is not easy." Falstaff is a coward of this class. But few men of pleasure have fortitude enough... | |
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