 | John Tulloch - Conduct of life - 1866 - 296 pages
...— will carry the soul into a higher region, and make a man feel kindred with the immortals. "0 joyl that in our embers Is something that doth live ; That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive I" A joy so precious as this, and which may minister to such high ends, is one which we are bound to... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866
...freight, And custom lio upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX. ( i joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That Nature yet reiuemK-rs What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 295 pages
...the Persons, down to palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage; As if his whole vocation O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest, Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 295 pages
...palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage ; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest, Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 600 pages
...holiday;— Thou Child of Joy, Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, then happy Shepherd-boy! IV. O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction; not, indeed, For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | David Gervais, Gervais David - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! ix O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth...That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The cumulative impact of Wordsworth's change of key is lost in so short an extract but the scope of the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1092 pages
...anniversarists? WJ WETHER8Y, British journalist. Quoted in: СилпКап (London. 18 Aug. 1989). 5 he Common Reader. 'Lady Oorolhy Nevill" (1925). WILLIAM WORDSWORTH II 770-1 850). English pocl. Intimalions of Immortality. See jlso Adjmt on IHt AMeRICAN... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 587 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! DC 130 O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 331 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! ix O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The cumulative impact of this change of key is lost in a short extract, but its scope is still breathtaking.... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 891 pages
...lie upon thee with a weight. Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! Oh joy! that in our embers 130 Is something that doth live. That nature yet remembers...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise... 
