 To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter,...  Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ... - Page 96by Kenelm Henry Digby - 1839Full view - About this book
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 456 pages
...scurrilously fluent. Shelley never makes his Titan flinch. He stands there as the sublime of endurance: ' To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent j To love and bearj to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 482 pages
...scurrilously fluent. Shelley never makes his Titan flinch. He stands there as the sublime of endurance : ' To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...length, Theso are the spells by which to renssumo An empire o'er the disentangled doom : To Buffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck... | |
 | William Adams - History - 1857 - 380 pages
...Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with its length, These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. these things excepted, the Law is a teacher wholly good, and is the great means of advance to the mere... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 404 pages
...Evil shall terminate, and the beams of divine beatitude shall once more irradiate the universe : " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night [ To defy Power, which seems omnipotent ; To love, and bear ; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 380 pages
...Evil shall terminate, and the beams of divine beatitude shall once more irradiate the universe : " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent ; To love, and hear ; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1859 - 424 pages
...beloved one, and of Lucia, the young, devoted dreamer, mingled into one. CHAPTER IX. To suffer woes that Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs darker than death or night, To love and bear, to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates, — This is thy glory ! — SHELLEY.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1863 - 542 pages
...anxiously Shelley wished to inculcate that the highest virtues of the creature are purely passive : " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs darker than death or night, To defy power which seems omnipotent, To love and bear, to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1863 - 542 pages
...anxiously Shelley wished to inculcate that the highest virtues of the creature are purely passive : " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs darker than death or night, To defy power which seems omnipotent, To love and bear, to hope till Hope creates From its owu wreck the... | |
 | Christianity - 1864 - 578 pages
...the poet gain such a notion of heroism as is pourtrayed by him in the conclusion of his drama:— ' Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suft'er woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night. * » » * *... | |
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