 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. in, while yet in wonder, and awe, and shame, Held...upon the dead and fly the living, One rose out of the beat things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. the scandal And naming his own name, did celebrate ; His mother's cave and servant-maids be plann'J wine want love ; and those who love, want wisdom ; Anil all best things are thus confused to ill. Many... | |
 | 1850 - 772 pages
...reveries of: Shelley, may chill the visions of philanthropy, until he feelg with that ideal reformer, that "The good want power but to weep barren tears. The...wise want love, and those who love want wisdom, And ill best things are thus confused to ill." Bat each and all these phases of reaction, in the spirit... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate. And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The...be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men A> if none felt : they know not what they do. PROMETHEUS. Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The...them. The wise want love ; and those who love want Andallbestthingsarethuscoufusedto ill. [wisdom; Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...those who love want And ;ill best things are thus eonfused to ill. [wisdom; Many are strong and rieh, and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men As if none felt : they know not what they do. PROMETHEUS. Thy words are like a eloud of winged snakes ; And yet I pity... | |
 | Arts - 1846 - 694 pages
...LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF A DREAMER. ''The good want power, but to weep barren tears , The powerfol goodness want ; worse need for them. The wise want love , and those who lore want wisdom ; And all best things are thus confused to ilf" Rather disconsolate, but how true... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...outworn. They dare not devise good fi>r man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The...confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would bo just, But live amon^ their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do. PROMKTIIEOS.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The...them. The wise want love ; and those who love want Andallbeetthingsarcthusconfusedto ill. [wisdom; Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Essays - 1849 - 322 pages
...through defect of sober intrepidity on the part of those who are rational, foolhardihood is triumphant. ' The Good want power, but to weep barren tears. The...wisdom ; And all best things are thus confused to ill.' * I do not mean of course to imply that it is for want of written poetry that the French nation cannot... | |
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The good want power but to weep barren tears : The powerful goodness want, — worse need for them : The wise want love : and those who love want wisdom : And all best things are thus confused to ill. 
