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... quiet parsonage held in it men who had succeeded to the spirit of Herbert , who ministered to English homes where dwelt , behind the village green and among their clipt yews and grassy plots women who devoted their lives to God , and ...
... quiet parsonage held in it men who had succeeded to the spirit of Herbert , who ministered to English homes where dwelt , behind the village green and among their clipt yews and grassy plots women who devoted their lives to God , and ...
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... quiet , sober , moral religion of England on which we touch ; but even so , it is a wholly different atmosphere from that which Pope breathed , and I doubt if he could have drawn a single breath in it . It is impossible to fancy Pope ...
... quiet , sober , moral religion of England on which we touch ; but even so , it is a wholly different atmosphere from that which Pope breathed , and I doubt if he could have drawn a single breath in it . It is impossible to fancy Pope ...
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... quiet contemplative interest such as he describes in lines , which , written in 1742 , embody the spirit in which he looked on Man , - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader , browner From Pope to Cowper . 23.
... quiet contemplative interest such as he describes in lines , which , written in 1742 , embody the spirit in which he looked on Man , - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader , browner From Pope to Cowper . 23.
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... quiet of enjoyment which broods like sunlight over Wordsworth's soul when he steps into a nook in the woods , and treads lightly lest he should disturb its living spirit .. For there is as much difference between the feeling of Thomson ...
... quiet of enjoyment which broods like sunlight over Wordsworth's soul when he steps into a nook in the woods , and treads lightly lest he should disturb its living spirit .. For there is as much difference between the feeling of Thomson ...
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... . Others , like Wordsworth , believing in God , saw Him in the loveliness and ten- derness and quiet that they loved , and worshipped not the Author of a great system whom they dared not 46 Theology in the English Poets .
... . Others , like Wordsworth , believing in God , saw Him in the loveliness and ten- derness and quiet that they loved , and worshipped not the Author of a great system whom they dared not 46 Theology in the English Poets .
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Page 89 - The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; And the rain poured down from one black cloud ; The Moon was at its edge.
Page 15 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Page 98 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 126 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith...
Page 6 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 312 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 6 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 88 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red.
Page 282 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 39 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.