 | 1873
...self-confidence, he ventures to compare himself. " His soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; He had a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So did he travel on life's common way"— but we pause when we come to the two concluding linen :— "... | |
 | James Ogilvie - 1816 - 279 pages
...up, O come to us again! And gire us, knowledge, freedom, virtue, power' Thy soul was like a star mid dwelt apart! Thou had'st a voice, whose sound was like the sea' So did'st thou travel o'er life's eommon road In cheerful godliness: and yet thy heart, The lowliest... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sei Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 pages
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; nevolence : Happier as kinde GREAT MEN HAVE BEEN AMONG US. Great men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT Men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better none: The... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827
...Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again. MILTON. units 160S—DIED 1674. Thy'soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice...naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel, in life's common way In cheerful tnxlllness. WORDSWORTH JOHN MILTON, who is pre-eminently the divine... | |
 | British poets - 1828
...given« manners, virtue.freedom, power. Thy soul «ни like a Star and dwelt apart: I (щи hadet a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the...majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, ID rheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart I In- lowliest duties on itself did lay. XV. IT is not to... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 383 pages
...MILTON. " 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 exalted... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 560 pages
...then ancwM. English dower Of inward happiness. WORDSWORTH. 461 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 hadsta voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 340 pages
...ancient Euglish dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish 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 : 146 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. Tlmu hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure... | |
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