 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 170 pages
...despair I feel not : happy am I as a Bird : Fair seasons yet will come, and hopes as fair. 129 I griev'd for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief!...mind what can it be ? What food Fed his first hopes? What knowledge could He gain? 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be... | |
 | Maurice Cross - English literature - 1835
...other; though the four first lines arc bad, and " week-day man" is by no means a Miltonic epithet. " I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The vital blood Ofthat man's mind what can it be ? What food Fed his first hopes ? W hat knowledge could he gain ?... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1837
...pensive as a bird Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare. * 14th July, 1790. VOL. III. IV. 1801. I GRIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that Man's mind — what can it be ? what food Fed his first hopes ? what knowledge... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 619 pages
...laid bare t1801. 1 GRIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that Man's mind — what can it be ? what food Fed his first hopes Î what knowledge could lu gain ! 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 619 pages
...despair Touches me not, though pensive as a bird Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare fl80l. I GRIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that Man's mind — what can it be ! what food Fed his first hopes ? what knowledge... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 508 pages
...truth and wisdom. " I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief! The tendcrest mood Of that man's mind — what can it be ? What food Fed his first hopes ? What knowledge could he gain ? 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The governor who must... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 508 pages
...reader's eye glance along these illustrious and dignified expressions of political truth and wisdom. " I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that man's mind — what can it be ? What food Fed his first hopes ? What knowledge... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 435 pages
...play, rv; 1801.* I GRIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! t The tenderest mood Of that Man's mind — what can it be ? what food Fed his first hopes ? what knowledge could he gain ? Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must... | |
 | Medley, G. F. S. - 1870 - 64 pages
...place ; and ho wrapt the world in flames which the blood of millions alone could quench. LORD BROUGHAM. I grieved for Buonaparte with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that man's mind, what can it be ? what food Fed his first hopes? what knowledge could... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Authors - 1871 - 344 pages
...its conception : — I grieved for Bonaparte' with a vain And an unthinking grief! The tenderest mood Of that man's mind — what can it be ? What food Fed his first hopes? What knowledge could he gain? 'T is not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be... | |
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ORIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that Man's mind — what can it be ? what food Fed his first hopes? what knowledge could he gain? 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be... 
