 | 1869
...be sure also to proclaim to us life. For " "Pis life, whereof our nerves are scant ; Oh, life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want." Herein lies the great defect of that otherwise faultless poem, Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard.... | |
 | 1884 - 626 páginas
...Christ are not drawn by death, bnt by life. " Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, Tin life, not death, for which we pant, More life, and fuller that we want." True Christians are in no sense vultures, and Christ is in no sense a carcase. The true explanation... | |
 | 1850 - 640 páginas
...human breath Has ever truly longed for death. 'T is life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want ! And this will be enough to recall to the recollection of not a few, the mournful incident to which... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1845 - 646 páginas
...human breath Has ever truly longed for death. ' 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life, not death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that we want.' Here we must part company with Mr. Tennyson. We have l>een very sparing of quotations brought forward... | |
 | 1845 - 608 páginas
...human breath Has ever truly longed for death. ''Tie life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want.' Here we must part company with Mr. Tennyson. We have been very sparing of quotations brought forward... | |
 | 1850 - 342 páginas
...human breath Has ever truly longed for death. 'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant : Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want.' Thus so mercifully are hope and endeavour made constituent elements of the human mental constitution,... | |
 | Barbarina Charlotte Grey (hon. lady.) - 1852 - 332 páginas
...human breath, Has ever truly longed for death. 'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life, not death, for which we pant, More life and fuller that we want. TENNYSON. EDWARD arrived at Liverpool the day after his sad farewell visit to Mary. He found that the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 páginas
...indeed! we, the less endowed, may well say — "Pis Life of which our nerves are scant. Oh ! Life, not Death, for which we pant, More life, and fuller, that we want. What is Life ? This supremely interesting question has seemed to approach nearer solution after every... | |
 | Hiram Fuller - 1858 - 374 páginas
...TOUR, / AND HERE AND THERE. 'VIVE LA VIE!" " ?Ti9 life whereof our nerves are scant, Oh! life, not death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that we want." TENSYSOH. NEW-YORK: DERBY & JACKSON, PUBLISHERS, 119 NASSAU-STREET. 1858.' PUBLIC LIBRARY 533574 ASTOS,... | |
 | 1859 - 620 páginas
...which charlatans have built their fortunes. "'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, Oh ! life, not death, for which we pant, More life, and fuller, that we want" The conclusion that seems to us most fairly deducible from the premises, is that temperate historical... | |
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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that we want. 
