 Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts,...  Double acrostics by various authors, ed. by K.L. - Page 163by Double acrostics - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Essays - 1849 - 322 pages
...also to be attributed to his worship of Nature ; and here again we may quote his own authority : — c "Tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead Erom joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty,... | |
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - Chemistry - 1918 - 480 pages
...with Wordsworth : " that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege Though all the years of this our life to lead From joy to joy." XXXII. — The Synthesis of Ammonia at High Temperatures. Part II. By EDWARD BRADFORD MAXTED. IN a... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1850 - 438 pages
...their arms as from a dismal dream to the eternal reality of beauty and of peace. No ! Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ! 'tis her privilege,...the years of this, our life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed... | |
 | Kevin Z. Moore - Fiction - 1993 - 344 pages
...of romantic consciousness. Specifically, Sue's charge rescinds Wordsworth's claim that "Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,/...years of this our life, to lead/ From joy to joy" ("Tintern Abbey," 122-24). This is the "plan" or promise that Sue claims "fate" has stabbed them in... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Epperly - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ... (119-25) A childhood favourite of Montgomery, Wordsworth is shown here to be woven into Emily's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...in thee what I was once, 120 My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make. Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed... | |
 | George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ... (119-25) One could conclude the interpretation of the poem here in a state of modified pessimism... | |
 | John Rieder - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 284 pages
...that constitute communities and hold them together: And this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed... | |
 | Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
...behold in thee what I was once, my dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'Tis her privilege...the years of this our life to lead from joy to joy: For she can || so inform the mind that is within us, || so impress with quietness and beauty, and ||... | |
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