For robes with regal purple tinged ; convert The crook into a sceptre ; give the pomp Of circumstance ; and here the tragic Muse Shall find apt subjects for her highest art. Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the... The Excursion; a Poem - Page 225by William Wordsworth - 1836 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pages
...tragic Muse Shall find apt subjects for her highest art. — Amid the groves, beneath the shadowy hills The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal...rejects, We, whose established and unfailing trust Is in controuling Providence, admit That through all stations human life abounds With mysteries, — for... | |
| 1827 - 798 pages
...Tragic Muse Shall find apt subject for her highest art. Amid the groves, beneath the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared, the pangs, The internal pangs are ready ; THE DKEAD STRIFE, OP pooa HUMANITY'S AFFLICTED WILL STRUGGLING IN VAIN WITH RUTHLESS DESTIKY ! Having,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...our. doom was sealed. In them " The generations were prepared ; the pangs, The internal pangs, were ready, the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." In their first false step we trace all our future woe, with loss of Eden. But there was a short and... | |
| 1821 - 746 pages
...destiny, ever cancelled. Beneath the hills, amid the flowery groves, The generations are prepar'd ; the pangs, The internal pangs, are ready ; the dread...afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny. The " winged wounds " that rankle in our breasts to our latest day were planted there long since, ticketed... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 482 pages
...bending flower, the tear collects in ihe glistening eye. " Beneath the hills, along tbe flowery vales, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal...afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." As the lark ascends from its low bed on fluttering wing, and salutes the morning skies ; so Mr. Wordsworth's... | |
| a and w galignani - 1825 - 306 pages
...the hills, amid the flowery groves, The generations are prepar'd ; the pangs, The internal pangs, arc ready; the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." The "winged wounds" that rankle in our breasts to our latest day, were planted there long since, ticketed... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 480 pages
...bending flower, the tear collects in the glistening eye. " Beneath the hills, along the flowery vales, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal pangs are ready; the dread strile Of poor humanity's afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." As the lark ascends... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pages
...destiny, ever cancelled. Beneath the hills, amid the flowery groves, The generations are prepar'd ; the pangs, The internal pangs, are ready ; the dread...afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny. The " winged wounds " that rankle in our breasts to our latest day, were planted there long since,... | |
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