 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.  Eastward-ho! - Page 3491885Full view - About this book
 | 1869
...eternal." Let the voice which speaks to us of death, be sure also to proclaim to us life. For " "Pis life, whereof our nerves are scant ; Oh, life, not...which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want." Herein lies the great defect of that otherwise faultless poem, Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard.... | |
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...Christians drawn to Christ are not drawn by death, bnt by life. " Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, Tin life, not death, for which we pant, More life, and fuller that we want." True Christians are in no sense vultures, and Christ is in no sense a carcase. The true explanation... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...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,...death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." I ceas'd, and sat as one forlorn. Then said the voice, in quiet scorn, " Behold, it is the... | |
 | 1850 - 640 pages
...crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. 'T is life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death,...which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want ! And this will be enough to recall to the recollection of not a few, the mournful incident to which... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...law of being is being; that the fundamental want of man Is to prove, affirm, augment, his own life. 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life,...death for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that I want. Man lives under the law of progress which is the striving after perfection, and of which the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1845 - 646 pages
...Whatever crazy sorrow saitb, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. ' 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life,...which we pant; More life, and fuller, that we want.' Here we must part company with Mr. Tennyson. We have l>een very sparing of quotations brought forward... | |
 | 1845 - 608 pages
...crazy sorrow eaith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. ''Tie life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life, not...which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want.' Here we must part company with Mr. Tennyson. We have been very sparing of quotations brought forward... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...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,...death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want." I ceas'd, and sat as one forlorn. Then said the voice, in quiet scorn, " Behold, it is the... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 426 pages
...felt kcenly the truth sung by our great contemporary poct — " TIB life whereof our nerves are seant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ! More life and fuller, that I want." He stood hefore his first love, and shrank not from ruing on her, though his heart had not... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pages
...Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has 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.' I ceased, and -sate as one forlorn. Then said the voice in quiet scorn, ' Behold, it is the... | |
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