It were a wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof, if we were men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good. But we have... The Excursion; a Poem - Page 26by William Wordsworth - 1836 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lady, A Lady - 1836 - 338 pages
...The calm of nature with our restless thoughts 7" WORDSWORTH. MOURNFUL THOUGHTS FRIENDLY TO VIRTUE. WE have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found A power to virtue friendly. WORDSWORTH. GRIEVE NO MORE. MY Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 378 pages
...demand Severe reproof, if we were men whose hearts Could liold vain dalliance with the misery Kven of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary...never marked By reason, barren of all future good." And he is right ; for if we wish that our actions should be inseparable from virtuous feeling, we must... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1837 - 278 pages
...dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have...always might be found A power to virtue friendly. — WORDSWORTH, MS. I KNOW not how I can better commence my second Landing-Place, as joining on to... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...with the misery Even of the dead: contented thence to draw 423 A. momentary pleasure, never raark'd pain, •• Come quickly, Martha, or you come in...nothing held, employ 'd, engaged her here. " I ara : were Ч not so, 1 am a dreamer among men, indeed, An idle dreamer ! 'tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...Even of the dead : contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd ' By reason, harren g : were 't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed, An idle dreamer ! 'tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof, if we were men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead: contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found In mournful... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof, if we were men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery' Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw...reason, barren of all future good. But we have known thatihere .is often found In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...Ruin, I returned, And begged of the old Man that, for my sake, He would resume his story. He replied, But we have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; wer Ч not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! "Tie a common tale, An ordinary... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Ruin, I returned, And begged of the old Man that, for my sake, He would resume his story. He replied, But we have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; wer 't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! "Tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 pages
...it. But the poet '•"!>ctKiture all of joyous fancips ; he t:-"m Wordsworth has finely told us : • that there is often found In mournful thoughts, and...always might be found A power to virtue friendly." The stream of his heart is not always like those of Spring, huddling and rapid and rolling out gladness,... | |
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