 All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4901895Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 24 pages
...accelerated velocity towards this danger, with almost the drowsy indifference of the lotus eaters. — • "Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with...any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave-?" When the first steps were taken to form a Church Union, each State had its own Church; which was, to... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil ? ls there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? All things have rest, and ripen toward... | |
 | Magdalen Stafford (fict.name.) - 1857 - 292 pages
...There is no joy but calm; Why should life all labour be ? Let us alone. What pleasure can there be To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ?'" She covered her face with her hands, that were moulded like some marble statue's ; and I gazed... | |
 | 1871 - 776 pages
...sweet, stretched out beneath the pine. " Hateful is the dark blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark blue sea. " Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? " All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone. " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream. With... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with...have rest, and ripen toward the grave, In silence ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease 1 These earnest questionings... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1860 - 520 pages
...that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with...things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence ; ripen full and cease. Give us long rest or death — dark death or dreamful ease. Perhaps, at last,... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...pencil— a scene and an atmosphere where it is so natural for weak and worn human nature to cry— ' Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with...there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave 1 • • • * Is there confusion in the little isle '1 Let what is broken so remain ; The gods are... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with...have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease : Give us Ion" rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease T 5. How sweet it were,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with...have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease ! 5. How sweet it were,... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1861 - 314 pages
...a Quaker he would be a prize-fighter, has been an offence to the many who are prone to sing : — " Let us alone ; what pleasure can we have To war with...there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? " To all such, — to all who believe in the traditions of the past, — to all who would rather... | |
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