 Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did...  The poetical works of william wordsworth - Page 1341892Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - Bible - 1851 - 554 pages
...are selfish men. O, raise us up ! Return to us again. " Thy soul was like a star ; and dwelt apart ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." GlLFJLLAN. STRICTURES UPON DR. JOHNSON'S CRITICISM. Johnson's criticism, inserted... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the se Pure as the naked heavens — majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heatt The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...power Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: That thoh , cuinmon way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...Pore as the naked heavens, majestie, free ; So didst thou travel on life's eommon way, In eheerful godliness : and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Hr, most sublime of bards, whose lay divine Sung of the Fall of Man, was in his style Naked and stern... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1852 - 364 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the Sea : Pure as the naked Heavens, majestic, free: So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." One should have climbed to as high a point as Wordsworth to be able to review Milton, or even to view... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thau hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst...life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy hear' The lowliest duties on herself did lay. This is great writing : no affectation, no babyism here,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst'thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Great Men. Great men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...— Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, — majestic, free ; So...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. — Wordsworth. LESSON XXIX.— THURSDAY. ENGLISH HISTORY — PLANTAGENET LINE. A short, sad reign,... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - English poetry - 1853 - 448 pages
...himself— " Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart, Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free; So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." THE END. LONDON: Printed by Schukeand Co., 13, Poland Street. THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. First roused thee. 0 true yoke-fellow of time, With unabating effort, see, the palm Is won,... | |
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