 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
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...part of me that flags, Through sinful choice ; or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. t Aitken Bertram : — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosen'd from... | |
 | William Angus Knight - England - 1878 - 286 pages
...holiest love ; as earth, sea, air, with light, With pomp, with glory, with magnificence ! l Again : — '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... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 246 pages
...Virgilian lines. And here, two pages farther, is another " application of ideas to life : " — " 'T is by comparison an easy task Earth to despise ; but to converse with heaven, — This is not easy." Spirituality, a characteristic of Wordsworth as poet, is the very essence of "The Excursion," underlying... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...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 Ueedom loosened from this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 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... | |
 | Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...of me that flags Through sinful choice, or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. Tie 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,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 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 loosen'd from this... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 pages
...things past. 9. Relinquish the hope and attempt of expressing. 11. Wordsworth, Excursion, Book IV. : — '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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 pages
...put. 9. Relinquish the hope and attempt of expressing. 11. Wordsworth, Excursion, Book IV. : — *T IB 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 happineu and loy, And stand fn freedom loosened from this... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - Meditations - 1887 - 252 pages
...full-freighted with our fate, Jut out dark on the offing of the mind. • PJ KAII.BY. 23 August. '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 or joy, And stand in freedom loosened from the world,... | |
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