 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...precepts over dignified," Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. I. B To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair v As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. IF To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...As is the smile upon thy face: Mowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy fooling treads; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee, arc f and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! 1 r ill thee: 1 myself commend L'nto thy guidance... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...the poet wove a garland for duty—so generally spoken and thought of as a cold and joyless thing:— Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 pages
...: — Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong!* * Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh hefore thee on their heds; And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve...stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through tin r are fresh and strong. To humhler functions, awful Power! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thec on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing (reads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens through tbee are fresh and strong." Vol. ip 73. The two last lines seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
 | 1854 - 332 pages
...benignant grace; Nor knew we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thoe on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WOKDSWOBTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1837 - 322 pages
...chartered * I need scarcely remind my readers of the beautiful passage in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, ending, Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong. And the most...ancient Heavens, through Thee are fresh and strong, L 2 212 CEREMONIES. libertine, yet persuade itself that it can be free without being obedient, or that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1840 - 464 pages
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And themost ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh andstrong . To humbler functions, awful Power ! I... | |
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Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;... 
