 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 Seiten
...same. Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thttu dost preserve the stare from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
 | 1843 - 184 Seiten
...BARTON. TO DUTY.* — OH Duty ! thou dost wear The godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance on thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 Seiten
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler funetions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! 1 call thee : I myself commend unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 Seiten
...The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy'face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stare from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions,... | |
 | 1877 - 226 Seiten
...critic. Jeffrey was more violent but less heeded. lie attacked these lines in the " Ode to Duty," — " Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Jeffrey said that this was utterly without meanreal service given, — have been full of them ; I ing... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 Seiten
...Wielded at will that fierce democratic. PR, IT. MM. With mask, and antique pageantry. ' L'AUtgro,' 188. Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH. ' ".<> to Day.' the rustic Lodge Antique ' Inacrip ttoiu.'] Exercise. The room had a very... | |
 | John Harris - 1847 - 330 Seiten
...union * Hence the apostrophe of the philosophic poet of nature in his Ode to Duty: " Stern lawgiver ! Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." t Bishop Berkely's Siris, p. 120. t Newton ; 31st Query, at the end of Optics. § Professor Forbes... | |
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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... 
