 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1814 - 476 pages
...should he deal herein with nice respects, And frustrate all the rest! Believe it not: The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe,...Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes, and good actions, and pure thoughtsNo mystery... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...— — Believe it not: The primal dutien shine aloft — lika^ttars; The charitj.es that sootlte , and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like ßowert. The generous inclination , the just rule, "") Innewerdend, obgleich spät, ilaft aller wahre... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...the rest ! Believe it not : The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities, that sooth, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man — like flowers. The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes, and good actions, and pure though No mystery... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...Creature as she is, from earth's bright flowers Into the dewy clouds. — . p. 159. The primal duties shine aloft— like stars ; The charities that soothe,...bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man— like flowers p. 398.' Many, very many passages equal to any we have extracted, we have passed over with regret that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...he deal herein with nice respects, And frustrate all the rest ! Believe it not : The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe,...Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes, and good actions, and pure thoughts — No mystery... | |
 | Alonzo Lewis - 1831 - 224 pages
... f POEMS BY ALONZO LEWIS. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities, that soothe,...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. WORDSWORTH BOSTON. . JOHN H. EASTBURN. 1831. Copy-right secured, according to Act of Congress. ± a... | |
 | Alonzo Lewis - 1831 - 224 pages
... ts'&ft^y*^ V POE 31 S . BY ALONZO LEWIS. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities, that soothe,...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. WOBDSWORTH. BOSTON. JOHN H. EASTBURN. U7»7 Copy-right secured, according to Act of Congress. PREFACE.... | |
 | George Washington Light - 1833 - 402 pages
...depends. And if Wordsworth uttered a truth, in the garb of poetry, when he said that the ' cbirities which soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers,' have we not reason to watch lest they are gradually but surely overshadowed ? sentiment to quicken... | |
 | Theology - 1833 - 424 pages
...Wordsworth ; that while " The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities, that sooth, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man — like flowers." There are other uses of the inequalities of life viewed in reference to the intimate relations of the... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...or as the bard o Rydal Mount has beautifully expressed it, The primal duties shine aloft like star*. The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Finally, he may learn that to accomplish any useful resu in this fleeting existence, there must he... | |
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The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. 
