 Seeking a higher object. Love was given, Encouraged, sanctioned, chiefly for that end ; For this the passion to excess was driven, That self might be annulled : her bondage prove The fetters of a dream, opposed to love.  The Madras University Calendar - Page cxxxiby University of Madras - 1879Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 pages
...ascend Towards a higher object: — Love was given, Encouraged, sanctioned, chiefly for this end t For this the passion to excess was driven — That...bondage prove The fetters of a dream, opposed to love." Aloud she shrieked ! for Hermes reappears ! Round the dear shade she wouldhave clung — 'tis vain!... | |
 | 1866 - 744 pages
...counsels her to seek,— " Our blest re-union in the shades below," And gently thus advises : — " Learn by a mortal yearning, to ascend — Seeking...object. Love was given, Encouraged, sanctioned, chiefly to that end." This is the essence of true poetry — the philosophic theory, and a noble sentiment,... | |
 | Francis James Child - Religious poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...patience may endure Pays light for that which leaves the heart More generous, dignified, and pure. Learn, by a mortal yearning to ascend, — Seeking a higher object. Love was given, Disappointed Affection. 195 Eticouraged, sanctioned, chiefly for that end ; For this the passion to... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1867 - 656 pages
...is clearly enunciated in those fine lines : Love was given, Encouraged, sanctioned, chiefly for this end, — For this the passion to excess was driven,...bondage prove The fetters of a dream, opposed to love. But as the poem ends now, it directly falsifies this assertion. It shows that the excess of love cannot... | |
 | 1873 - 756 pages
...thy passing bell. CHIEFLT FOR THIS END. ' Love was given, Encoutaged, sanctioned, chiefly for this end ; For this the passion to excess was driven, That self might be annulled.' CHAPTER I. ENTER a large dingy-looking house in King's-bench-walk, Inner Temple, and ascend the staircase... | |
 | Edward Thring - English language - 1868 - 392 pages
...way, resolved That, of a thousand vessels, mine should be The foremost. p. 177. Dependent Sentence. For this the passion to excess was driven That self...annulled; her bondage prove The fetters of a dream. p. 178. Conditional Sentences. First Clause wanting. Round the dear Shade she would have clung. p.... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...grand, sweet song." — A FAREWELL. — Kingaley, " Learn, by a mortal yearning, to ascend, — Towards a higher object. Love was given, Encouraged, sanctioned,...driven, That self might be annulled — her bondage prov<j The fetters of a dream, opposed to love." LAODAMIA. — Wordsworth. " Life 's more than breath... | |
 | Arthur Clifford (fict.name.) - 1869 - 392 pages
...words which you will be sorry some day to have spoken. I have my answer." CHAPTER XXIX. "VJR VICTIS!" " Learn by a mortal yearning to ascend, Seeking a higher...given, Encouraged, sanctioned, chiefly for that end." Laodamia. " KENNEDY CASTLE, SHIRE. " 11 TY VEBY DEAR SON, — I have delayed a day in answerJj-L ing... | |
 | Art - 1869 - 384 pages
...of his Laodamia, that poem in which Grecian statues come to life and breathe burning words ? — " For this the passion to excess was driven That self might be annull'd, her bondage prove The fetters of a dream compared to love. " And in another noble passage,... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 pages
...of his LaoJamia, that poem in which Grecian statues come to life and breathe burning words ? — ' ' For this the passion to excess was driven That self might be annull'd, her bondage prove The fetters of a dream compared to love. " And in another noble passage,... | |
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