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... Essays from the North American Review - Page 105publié par - 1879 - 482 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...power. 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...godliness ; 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1838 - 508 pages
...like the no» : I'uru as the naked lieiivens, majestic, frei'. A didst thou travel on life's commun way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. I . VOI.ITH'AI. XONNIÎTH. (ÎKI:.\T Him have lut-il among us ; lianiis that poniu.l... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou h ail's ia voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free , So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Cromwell died, Sept. 3, 1658. Heriot's Hospital, in Edinburgh, was opened, and 30... | |
| 1839 - 510 pages
...power. 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...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... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840 - 376 pages
...power. 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...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart XV. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none... | |
| 1841 - 908 pages
...Milton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose soun'l was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart 1841.] Pencillings on Poetry. And he, who wrote the above six lines, author of the Excursion, is another... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...behind into Lincoln's Inn Fields. He here continued to work in the education of a few scholars:— " So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." V'-u [Barbican. Designed from old Maps and Elevations, temp. James and Charles I.]... | |
| 1842 - 610 pages
...power. 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...godliness ; and yet 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... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...MILTON. " 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...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." — Wordsworth. Milton, who is rightly classed among the most exalted of British... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...power ! Thy soul teas 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...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Surely this is great writing. There is no affectation, no babyism here. The poet... | |
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