 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers...death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and odours there, In truth have never passed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things eccm, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers...death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fur, And all sweet shapes and odours there. In truth have never pass'd... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet i'loasant, t Swear to me, ere I die With fearful expectation, that indeed Thou art not what tho That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all iweet shapes and odors there, In truth have never pass'd... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, AnJ we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must he, Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fnir, And nil sweet shapes and odours... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...moral, we have some remarkable stanzas, two of which we quote; the whole poem is a beautiful allegory. " It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers...death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery! That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and odours there, In truth have never pass'd... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...terror, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers...death, itself must be, Like all the rest a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes, and odours there, In truth, have never passed... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...terror, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers...death, itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes, and odours there, doctrine, nor philosophical... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest ereed, and yet Pleasant, if one eonsiders it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a moekery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and odours there, In truth have never... | |
 | Literature - 1907 - 848 pages
...too much. Would any race have had the courage to start upon its way had it conceived death as real? it is a modest creed and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be LJke all the rest, a mockery. lt is a creed which springs from the very instinct of life. Two pelicans... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...terror, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream : It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers...death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes, and odours there, In truth, haye never passed... | |
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I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife. Where nothing is, but all things seem. And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest,... 
