This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — And mind and dust — and passions and... MacMillan's Magazine - Page 392edited by - 1869Full view - About this book
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...repeat the mournful regret of the good abbot over the sins of Manfred : — " This should have been n noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would...pure thoughts, Mixed, and contending, without end or order, All dormant or destructive." ENGLISH POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.* THE consideration... | |
| 1849 - 546 pages
...charity itself can do is to repeat the mournful regret of the good abbot over the sins of Manfred : — 1 This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all...and pure thoughts, Mixed, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.' " — Vol. i. pp. 281-284. Here the reader will observe that... | |
| 1849 - 542 pages
...charity itself can do » to repeat the mournful regret of the good abbot over the sins of Manfred : — ' This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame or glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it a, It is an awful chaos : — light and... | |
| Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 pages
...charity itself can do, is to repeat the mournful regrct of the good Abbot over the sins of Manfred : ' This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy that would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is,... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 pages
...charity itself can do is to repeat the mournful regret of the good abbot over the sins of Manfred : — "This should have been a noble creature : he Hath...pure thoughts, Mixed, and contending, without end or order, All dormant or destructive." ENGLISH POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.* THE consideration... | |
| Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - 1851 - 308 pages
...energy that would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Hod they been wisely mingled — as it is, An awful chaos — light and darkness, And...and pure thoughts, Mixed and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive ; she will perish— And yet she must not ; such are worth redemption.... | |
| Willard C. George - 1852 - 266 pages
...dark and wild scenery, that was in keeping, somewhat, with his dark and malignant nature. He had " all the energy which would have made A goodly frame...And mind and dust— and passions and pure thoughts Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive." Deep depravity was made quite... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - 610 pages
...with infinite capacities of mind. " He should have been a glorious creature ; he Had all the energies which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements,...is, It is an awful chaos, light and darkness, And mud and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd and contending, without end or order, All donnant... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - 584 pages
...with infinite capacities of mind. " He should have been a glorious creature ; he Hsu! all the energies which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements,...wisely mingled ; as it is, It is an awful chaos, light und darkness, And mud and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd and contending, without end or... | |
| Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 314 pages
...suffers extreme agony, but is calm and majestic in suffering. In the language of the good Abbot: u This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which should have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is... | |
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