 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...my side. DEDICATED TO NATIONAL LNT)EPENDENCE AND LIBERTY. WHD I have borne in memory what has tuned Great Nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When...and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears imnamfd I had, my Country !—am I to be blamed ! Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily,... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - Bible - 1870 - 860 pages
...read a passage showing Wordsworth's love for his country : When I have borne in memory what has tinned Great nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When...country !— am I to be blamed, Now, when I think of thce, and what thou art. Verily in the bottom of my heart. Of thoee nnnllal fears I urn ashamed. For... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1870 - 390 pages
...Which Milton held.—In every thing we are sprung Of Earth's first blood, have titles manifold. xvn. WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great Nations,...student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country!—am I to be blamed ? Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1870 - 368 pages
...memory what has tamed Great Nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for legers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears...blamed ? Now, when I think of thee, and what thou arl^ Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize... | |
 | Science - 1870 - 672 pages
...mental, and not material resources are to furnish the standard of our civilization, it becomes us to bear in memory : — " What has tamed Great nations ; how...ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold." Yet inevitably, in young countries like this, the whole energies of the community are liable to be... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...hold Which Milton held. In everything we're sprung Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. XVIL WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great nations, how innobling thoughts depart When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...Nations, how ennohling thoughts depart When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The stndent's hower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country !— am I to he hlamed ? Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Yerily, in the hottom of my heart, Of those... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 80 pages
...of two." 92 honour sinhs, etc.—Compare a similar sentiment in one of Wordsworth's Sonnets :— " Ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for...ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold." 108 theatric pride—ie, like the tiers of spectators rising one above another in a theatre. 112 were—ie,... | |
 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...sprung Of Earth's first blood, have titles manifold. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1770 — 1850. UNFILIAL FEARS. WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great nations,...unnamed I had, my country ! — am I to be blamed ? But when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...from Men. SIBYLLINE LEAVES. L— POEMS OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS OR FEELINGS CONNECTED WITH THEM. WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great nations,...fears unnamed I had, my country ! Am I to be blamed? But, when I think of Thee, and what Thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unnlial fears... | |
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But when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men ; And I by my affection was beguiled : What wonder... 
