Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. " Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want. The Sewanee Review - Seite 4091898Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1887 - 626 Seiten
...Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Hath ever truly long'd for death. "Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, O life, not...which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want" It is life, — life free from trammel, free from burden, free from hampering conditions ; a life of... | |
| William Brunton - 1879 - 180 Seiten
...thus Draws us a profit from all things we see. Shakspeare. 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that I want. Tennyson. J I BLESS THEE, FATHER, THAT I LIVE. O FATHER of the human race, From whence we come, in... | |
| 1879 - 644 Seiten
...into musical phrase by the laureate of England : — " 'Tis life whereof oar nerves are scant ; Oh, life, not death, for which we pant, — More life, and fuller, that we want." But these men that are arguing the question would say, We grant that ; but it is just these... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Beck - 1880 - 240 Seiten
...a fit and beautiful image, recalling Tennyson's lines, " Tis life of which our souls are scant, Oh, life, not death, for which we pant— More life, and fuller, that I want." One long last look at the classic ruins of the Acropolis and the surrounding scenery concluded the... | |
| Emma Jane Worboise - 1880 - 590 Seiten
...come back to me.' " CHAPTER XXXVII. LOST IN THE WOOD. " 'Tie life whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." BUT soon the sadness faded from Joan's mind. Meliora was not less tenderly remembered, yet Mrs. Warrendale... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 416 Seiten
...which is to me the most comforting of thoughts Yes— ' Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death for which we pant, More life, and fuller, that I want.' You are right—that longing to get rid of walls and roofs and all the chrysalis case of humanity is... | |
| 1880 - 396 Seiten
...they might have it more abundantly. — JOHN x. 10. ""Pis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh 1 life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." The idea of a perfect life is the idea of a life developing every faculty of the mind, every power... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1880 - 208 Seiten
...into musical phrase by the laureate of England : — " 'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant ; Oh, life, not death for which we pant, — More life, and fuller, that we want." But these men that are arguing the question would say, We grant that ; but it is just these... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1880 - 608 Seiten
...latter part of his exclamation was clearly suggested by the familiar bines of Tennyson :— " 'Tis life, not death, for which we pant, More life, and fuller, that we want." The turning round and laughing to myself with my hand before my eyes was a trick of my German... | |
| Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 306 Seiten
...breathes with human breath, Hath ever truly longed for death. 'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant ; Oh, life, not death, for which we pant, More life, and fuller, that I want. And what he sees is a village Churchyard, on "the Sabbath morn," and "the sweet Church bells begin... | |
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