Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And... The three histories - Seite 320von Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 322 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1808 - 532 Seiten
...Godhead's mod benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing fo fair As is the fmile upon thy face ; Flowers Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou doll preferve the ftars from wrong ; And the moft ancient heavens through thee are frelh and ftronjr.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 Seiten
...precepts over dignified," Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair v As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy footing... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in... | |
| Mrs. Hoare (Louisa Gurney) - 1819 - 206 Seiten
...themselves, that " her ways are ways of pleasantness;" and that " all her paths are peace :" — " Nor know we any thing so fair, As is the smile upon her face*." ,, Care must be taken not to press too closely upon children such non-essential points... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 310 Seiten
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rtst is on a thought; Conscious of doing what I ought." Jlndrea Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds. And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 308 Seiten
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rest is on a thought, Conscious of doing what I ought." Andrew Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 296 Seiten
...a thought, Conscious of doing what I ought." Andrew Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dostwear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 Seiten
...of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the s Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Mowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy fooling treads; Thou dost preserve the... | |
| 1829 - 876 Seiten
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver '. yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
| 1829 - 930 Seiten
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thce on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles,... | |
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