| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 572 pages
...light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power, Joy blameless Poet ! Joy that ne'er was given Save to the pure and in their purest hour, Joy, William, is the spirit and the power That wedding Nature to us gives in dower, A uew Earth and... | |
| Henry Duff Traill - 1901 - 224 pages
...light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power. Joy, virtuous Lady ! Joy that ne'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady ! is the spirit and the power, Which, wedding... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 pages
...glory, this fair, luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power ! — Joy, virtuous lady ! joy that ne'er was given Save to the pure, and in their purest hour ; Life and life's effluence, cloud at once and shower ; Joy, lady, is the spirit and the power Which wedding... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 pages
...overcoming this lethal division within himself and from the outer world is the state which he calls "joy," Joy that ne'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life's effluence. . . . "Joy" is a central and recurrent term in the Romantic vocabulary which... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 602 pages
...this glory, this fair, luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power, Joy, virtuous Lady I joy that ne'er was given Save to the pure, and in their purest hour ; Life and life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady ! is the spirit and the power Which wedding... | |
| Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - 1984 - 232 pages
...the concrete psychological manifestation of the divine force operative in man, Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy that ne'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power, Which wedding... | |
| L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pages
...us" and giving us "in dower / A new Earth and new Heaven" is a passing grace: "Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy that ne'er was given, / Save to the pure, and in their purest hour" (68-69, 64-65). The inclination of Romantic art, responding to the gravitational pull of a far-off... | |
| Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...Light, this Glory, this fair luminous Mist, This beautiful and beauty-making Power! Joy, innocent Sara! Joy, that ne'er was given Save to the pure and in their purest Hour, JOY, Sara! is the Spirit and the Power sis That wedding Nature to us gives in dower A new Earth and... | |
| Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 pages
...the "Joy" that is its nominal opposite: in stanza 5 Coleridge construes it as a natural beneficence ("Joy that ne'er was given, / Save to the pure, and in their purest hour [11. 64-65]), which must logically come from somewhere, like Keats's melancholy "fit" falling like... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...this strong music in the soul may be! 60 This beautiful and beauty-making power. Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy that ne'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power, Which wedding... | |
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