 Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did...  Wordsworth to Dobell - Pagina 78a cura di - 1880Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1839 - 512 pagine
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men, 0 ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Work*, p. 213. But we pass on to notice Wordsworth's power of description, as a second distinguishing... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pagine
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. TO THE MEN OF KENT. 1803. VANGUARD of Liberty, ye Men of Kent, Ye Children of a... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pagine
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; O, raise us up ! return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. I. HE, most sublime of bards, whose lay divine Sung of the Fall of Man, was in his style Naked and... | |
 | 1836 - 532 pagine
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Who that has read " meek Walton" will not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? Walton's Book... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pagine
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." Vol. ip 140. We make room for this other; though the four first lines arc bad, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pagine
...publicity, he continued diligently to discharge all the common duties of life. Well might Wordsworth sii\g : B0 Yet a while longer his harp was left in the hands of the guardian Muse. The strings were now occasionally,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pagine
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pagine
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED UPON WESTM1NSTEK BR1DGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he he... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pagine
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED OPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be... | |
 | 1839 - 510 pagine
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men, O ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties ou herself did lay." Works, p. 213. But we pass on to notice Wordsworth's power of description, as... | |
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