 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,...  The Civil service handbook of English literature - Page 167by Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 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,...life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform * This line has a close resemblance to an admirable line of Young, the exact expression of which I... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...close resemblance to an admirable line of Young, the exact expression of which I cannot recollect. The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...: ' Knowing that nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Through nll the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can no inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...Sister! ami this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life,...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Christian life - 1828 - 262 pages
...tendency of true religion, I will quote some lines from a poem that has few fellows.* « Tintern Abbey. " She can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues. Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...behold in thce what I was once, My dear, dear Sister ! And this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never ts our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...in thee what I was once, ' My dear, dear sister! And this prayer 1 make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 708 pages
...in what language, he extols the mistress who has so kindly taught him : 'Knowing lhat nature never did betray , The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege,...our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so infnrm The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Sister ! And this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life,...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 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,...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
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