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... Shaw's New History of English Literature - Sivu 142tekijä(t) Thomas Budd Shaw - 1879 - 404 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| 1851 - 702 sivua
...freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the i Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." 48 not reparation, has been their motto, and the clergy of those countries, which have a religion of... | |
| 1851 - 508 sivua
...This contrast Wordsworth has finely depicted : — " Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like tlie sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ; So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." In combination with the vastest native powers it is surprising to find industry that could quell all... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 sivua
...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...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 554 sivua
...are selfish men. O, raise us up ! Return to us again. " Thy soul was like a star ; and dwelt apart ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." GlLFJLLAN. STRICTURES UPON DR. JOHNSON'S CRITICISM. Johnson's criticism, inserted... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 sivua
...dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the se Pure as the naked heavens — majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heatt The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 sivua
...power Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: That thoh , cuinmon way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 428 sivua
...Pore as the naked heavens, majestie, free ; So didst thou travel on life's eommon way, In eheerful godliness : and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Hr, most sublime of bards, whose lay divine Sung of the Fall of Man, was in his style Naked and stern... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 sivua
...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...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." One should have climbed to as high a point as Wordsworth to be able to review Milton, or even to view... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 sivua
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thau hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst...life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy hear' The lowliest duties on herself did lay. This is great writing : no affectation, no babyism here,... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 sivua
...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...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Great Men. Great men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better... | |
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