 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...  The American Journal of Education - Pagina 73geredigeerd door - 1856Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pagina’s
...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; Thou had'st a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face The lily only has a place ? Is it that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pagina’s
...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 : Thou hadst a voice...free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In chearful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 140 Great Men have been... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...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 : Thou hadst a voice...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 1803. XV. GIIEAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...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 : Thou hadst a voice...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay, XV. Gu EAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered wisdom,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pagina’s
...rich jewel hanging in an Ethiop's ear. So, too, when Wordsworth apostrophizes Milton, — " Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea " ; — here we have two similes. But when he says, — " Unruffled doth the blue lake lie, The mountains... | |
 | James Ogilvie - 1816 - 436 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 758 pagina’s
...selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give ui manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." " Miltone, vellem nunc quoque viveres : Te nostra, te nunc postulat Anglia : Quae, more coeoosie paludis,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pagina’s
...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 : Thou hadst a voice...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 :... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 404 pagina’s
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 | 1836 - 698 pagina’s
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us mii1iners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou had'st a voice...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did l.-iv.' vol. ii. p. 329. His esteem for the great men of English history rises to a sublime... | |
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