 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 pagina’s
...spirit's home, whence it came, where should go ; — Enough, more than enough, now let me rest J * I SLEPT, and dreamed that life was Beauty ; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be... | |
 | 1853 - 672 pagina’s
...future need ; Esteeming sorrow, whose employ Is to develop, not destroy, Far better than a barren joy. I SLEPT and dreamed that Life was Beauty ; I woke and found that Life was Duty ; Was then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shall find thy dream to be... | |
 | 1881 - 502 pagina’s
...looked up and sang with strange intensity if with her usual soft distinctness, " I slept— and dreamt that life was Beauty ; I woke — and found that life was Duty ;" and she stepped down, laid by her violin, and took the low luxurious seat from which she had risen... | |
 | 208 pagina’s
...Every one who has got beyond the first stage in the spiritual life can say — ' I slept, and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.' When Raphael, tutored by sorrow, had learnt that, he rose up a new man. He saw the obligations of a... | |
 | 1850 - 574 pagina’s
...discord sharp ; Breathed alway like a silver harp ; And went to immortality A very proper thing to die. I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty — I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream, then, a shadowy lie ? Toil on, aad heart, courageously, And thou shall find thy dream to... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pagina’s
...with which we took the composing-stick in hand for the first time, and set up those beautiful lines, ' I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty ; I woke, and found that life was Duty,' &c. " Our press was a rickety, old wooden instrument, and our type was worn, and none of us understood... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1852 - 674 pagina’s
...may be sought Lies through the great highway men call I OUGHT. 530 8s M. Hi-ant),) .1110 5Quti_). 1 I SLEPT — and dreamed that life was beauty , I woke...dream shall be A noon-day light and truth to thee. 531 PM 1 " HEART, heart, lie still ! Life is fleeting fast, Strife will soon be past." " I cannot lie... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pagina’s
...weak resolves have passed away, In mercy lend thy helping hand Unto my prayer to-day ! JG WHITTIER. I SLEPT and dreamed that Life was Beauty. I woke and...heart, courageously ; And thou shalt find thy dream to be, A noon-day light and truth to thee ! LIFE — life, my friend, May hold a not unornamented course,... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pagina’s
...weak resolves have passed away, In mercy lend thy helping hand Unto my prayer to-day ! JG WHITTIER. I SLEPT and dreamed that Life was Beauty. I woke and...shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously ; And tliou shalt find thy dream to be, A noon-day light and truth to thee ! LIFE — life, my friend, May... | |
 | 1853 - 398 pagina’s
...may be recognized, to your eternal honor, as a rich inheritance, which has descended from age to age. I SLEPT and dreamed that Life was Beauty ; I woke and found that Life was Duty ; Was then thy dream a shadowy He ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be... | |
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I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee... 
