 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...  The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne - Seite 183von Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 407 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 Seiten
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. France lacks GREAT men have been among us; hands that penned Great Men And tongues that uttered wisdom... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 Seiten
...power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwell apart : WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. Thou 1ml- 1 a Yoice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties OD herself did lay. GIEAT Meu have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 Seiten
...conduct.' " " Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart : Thou hads.1 a voice whose sound was like the sc»; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lewliest duties on herself did lay." — Wordsworth. Milton, who is rightly classed among the most... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 Seiten
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart... | |
 | 1839 - 512 Seiten
...selfish men, 0 ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...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... | |
 | 1831 - 484 Seiten
...even more truly than of Milton, may it be said, " His soul was as a star, and dwelt apart : He had a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free." To him succeeded Aristotle, without the everyday practical wisdom of Socrates, and without the wrapt... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1832 - 264 Seiten
...lines of Wordsworth apply to his character:— " Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart: Pure aa the naked heavens, majestic free, ******* So dids't...godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." My father was a courtier, at least he was frequently about the person of our good... | |
 | 1833 - 240 Seiten
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. 201 202 WILLIAM WORDSWOUTH. TO THE MEN OF KENT. 1803. VANGUARD of Liberty, ye Men of Kent, Ye Children... | |
 | 1836 - 532 Seiten
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...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 Seiten
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...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... | |
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