 | 1858 - 620 pagina’s
...philosophical poet's revelation concerning the individual spirit of man : — ' The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar : . . . . Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! ' But he appears to forget that the theory thus... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1845 - 326 pagina’s
...REVELATION OF A PREVIOUS LIFE. ' Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." WORDSWOHTH. THE death of a lady, in a foreign land, leaves me at liberty to narrate the circumstances... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 694 pagina’s
...sad music of humanity,' Wordsworth, resound : ' OUR birth is but a sleep end a forgetting : The soul that rises with us, our life's star Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come,... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - 1859 - 360 pagina’s
...at once said "This maiden shall be my queen, and Esther shall be her name." " The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Heaven lies about us in our infancy." 3. In the discovery of the conspiracy and the entering... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - 1859 - 360 pagina’s
...at once said "This maiden shall be my queen, and Esther shall be her name." " The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Heaven lies about us in our infancy." 3. In the discovery of the conspiracy and the entering... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pagina’s
...doctrine of the Platonists, that " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ; The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." It was Henry More's opinion that the pre-existence of the soul was a tenet for which there are many plausible... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 pagina’s
...its last dark sermon from the gallows. Who knows ? No one ; least of all the innocent babe — its chief portion of life given to sleep ; its little...can to make her foster child" learn the first of her laws — self-preservation, selfknowledge, and, first of all, self-existence. As a child grows up he... | |
 | Goodwyn Barmby - 1865 - 268 pagina’s
...promise in opening heavens. There has been " a sleep and a forgetting," and "The soul that riseth in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar" — and now again it is youthful — possesses new energies — has a new race to run. Youth... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1870 - 546 pagina’s
...instinctive and proleptic yearnings for its return. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar, Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we... | |
 | John Timbs - 1873 - 378 pagina’s
...that fine poem where he says — Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. With all respect for the doctrine of a previous existence, it appears to us that the sensation... | |
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us our life's star has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar... 
