 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will,...still, and bright With something of an angel light. 311 VIII. 0 NIGHTINGALE! thou surely art A Creature of ebullient heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | Elizabeth Constantia Agnew - 1819 - 266 pages
...one tyrant instead of many !" CHAPTER XIX. A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller 'twist life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will,...still and bright, With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH. AT this part of the conversation, Mr. Everard joined the two friends, and, much pleased... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 372 pages
...eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will,...still, and bright With something of an angel light. 134 IX. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...eye serene, The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will,...and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, to command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 pages
...eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will,...still, and bright With something of an angel light. But the great distinction and glory of Mr Wordsworth's j poetry, is the intimate converse which it... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will,...still, and bright 'With something of an angel light. X. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine — they... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will,...and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; WORDSWORTH. And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1832 - 402 pages
...nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the...still, and bright With something of an angel light. X. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine — they... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will,...spirit still, and bright With something of an angel Tight. THY ART BE NATURE. A POET! — He hath put his heart to school. Nor dares to move unpropped... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...eye serene, The very pulse of the machine : A being breathing thoughtful breath ; A traveller betwixt life and death. The reason firm, the temperate will,...still and bright, With something of an angel light. Such is the portrait which is amplified and placed in a hundred new lights in the PURITAN'S GRAVE.... | |
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A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very... 
