 All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved...  The Monitor - Page 1061879Full view - About this book
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - Christianity - 1891 - 420 pages
...much good more; On the earth the broken arcs: in the heaven a perfect round. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in tho Bky, 1 An Epistle, i. 343. * The Pope, 1229 ff. Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1892 - 666 pages
...survives fo.r the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...; Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it by and by." Every dream, every ideal, everything we have tried to think or to be, is promise, is prophecy.... | |
 | Marshall Mather - English literature - 1892 - 190 pages
...heaven, and cannot die in air and perish with the ceasing sound. Oh no : ' The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...; Enough that He heard it once ; we shall hear it by-and-by.' So the musician returns to the common chord as he retires to earth : ' Give me the keys.... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach delinquency. July Eighth. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...; Enough that He heard it once ; we shall hear it by-and-by. July Ninth. As the first glance told me There was no duty patent in the world THOUGHTS FIT... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 pages
...survives for the melodist, When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...; Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it by and by. XI. And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fullness of the clays... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 466 pages
...survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard ; XI. And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days ? Have we withered... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1893 - 208 pages
...survives for the melodist, When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...; Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it by-and-by. \ And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days ? Have... | |
 | Greek letter societies - 1893 - 564 pages
...survives for the melodist, When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...; Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it by and by. And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days ? Have... | |
 | William Smythe Babcock Mathews - Music - 1893 - 880 pages
...said in "Pauline," is " an earnest of a heaven," for (again in Abt Vogler) "The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...sky, • Are music sent up to God by the lover and bard: Enough that He heard it once: We shall hear it by-and-by." * " Deeper even than the Andante dived,"... | |
 | Robert Mark Wenley - Pessimism - 1894 - 392 pages
...survives for the melodist, When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that...; Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it by-and-by." His vision not thus enlightened, the contradictoriness of things remains for Hamlet an... | |
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