| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1845 - 326 страници
...he. Surely never man more deserved it. A 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... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1850 - 374 страници
...PICTURES OF SOCIETY AND PEOPLE OF MARK. A 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 it's setting, And cometh from afar." WORDSWOHTH. THE death of a lady, in a foreign... | |
| John Timbs - 1861 - 340 страници
...occur in Wordsworth's "Ode on the Intimation of Immortality in Childhood." 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. Elsewhere, our metaphysical poet sings : My eyes... | |
| 1863 - 478 страници
...consciousness of a former 'life. At such times we are ready to accept the 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 страници
...Wordsworth, too, founds on this notion in that fine poem where he sayg — ' Our birth is but a sleep ambers Has had elsewhere its setting, A 1 1 r 1 cometh from afar. ' With all respect for the doctrine of a... | |
| Alfred Barry (bp. of Sydney.) - 1871 - 134 страници
...which I call my body. It is mine, but it is not me As Wordsworth says : " ' Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar : Not in entire forgetfulness, Not in utter nakedness,... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1871 - 52 страници
...has been engendered in us from another source. As Wordsworth says : — " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ; The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar : Not in entire forgetfulness, Not in utter nakedness,... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1871 - 72 страници
...something which has been engendered in us from another source. As Wordsworth says: Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ; The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar : Not in entire forgetfulness, Not in utter nakedness,... | |
| Alfred Barry - 1871 - 132 страници
...which I call my body. It is mine, but it is not me As Wordsworth says : " ' Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar : Not in entire forgetfulness, Not in utter nakedness,... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1871 - 62 страници
...has been engendered in us from another source. As Wordsworth •ays: — " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar: Mot in entire forgetfulness, .Not in utter nakedness,... | |
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