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" The food of hope Is meditated action ; robbed of this Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light And breathe the sweet air of futurity ; And so we live, or else we have no life. "
A Winter in the Azores: And a Summer at the Baths of the Furnas - Page 225
by Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar - 1841
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The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem

William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pages
...this, Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light, And breathe the sweet air...futurity, And so we live, or else we have no life. To-morrow — nay perchance this very hour, (For every moment has its own to-morrow !) — Those blooming...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 452 pages
...this Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also; for we live by hope And by desire; we see by the glad light, And breathe the sweet air...futurity, And so we live, or else we have no life. To-morrow — nay perchance this very hour, (For every moment hath its own to-morrow !) — Those blooming...
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The Excursion; a Poem

William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...this Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light And breathe the sweet air...futurity ; And so we live, or else we have no life. To-morrow — nay perchance this very hour (For every moment hath its own to-morrow !) Those blooming...
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The Mourner's Book

Lady, A Lady - 1836 - 338 pages
...this Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light, And breathe the sweet air...futurity, And so we live, or else we have no life. To-morrow — nay perehance this very hour, (For every moment hath its own to-morrow.) WORDSWORTH....
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live hy hope And hy desire ; we see hy ought to be a night when witches, devils, and other mischief-making beings, are all abroad on t To-morrow — nay, perchance this very hour, — (For every moment hath its own to-morrow !) Those...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire; we see by the jlad light, And breathe the sweet air of futurity, And so we live, or else we have no life. To-morrow—nay, perchance this very hour,— (For every moment hath its own to-morrow!) Those blooming...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...and dies. We perish also ; for we live hy hope And hy desire ; we see hy the glad light, And hreathe ng seasons changed the scene From heat to cold, tempestuous to sere To-morrow — nay, perchance this very hour, — (For every moment hath its own to-morrow!) Those hlooming...
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The New-York Review, Volume 4

1839 - 538 pages
...description of the two Boys, in the latter books of the Excursion : " we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light And breathe the sweet air...futurity ; And so we live, or else we have no life. To-morrow — nay, perchance this very hour, (For every moment has its own to-morrow !) Those blooming...
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Facts in Mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it

Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 604 pages
...endowments, as intended for a series of existences. " — — — For, we live by hope, And by desire ; we see by the glad light, And breathe the sweet air of futurity." * Here, only, when we doubt, we are vastly too humble; refusing to recognise our own dignity and the...
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The Churchman's Monthly Review

1841 - 730 pages
...constitute only a single Sheriff of Middlesex, arc not less gifted with power to profit than to please. " To an invalid, one of the advantages of change of...natures? — for as the child places his happiness on boyhood, so does the hoy on manhood, and the man looks forward to some resting-place on the ladder...
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