 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...Bonnets to him." See also Wordsworth's note on "Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room." p. 48. nd her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which...heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray batlles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 pages
...stay secure I'll think of the Leech-gatherer on the lonely moor I " (1802) "I GRIEVED FOR BUONAPARTE" I GRIEVED for Buonaparte", with a vain And an unthinking...what food Fed his first hopes ? what knowledge could ht gain ? Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper... | |
 | Laurence A. Rickels - History - 1988 - 388 pages
...frankly states that Bonaparte does not possess the virtues of a republican-minded politician. He asks: "What / food / Fed his first hopes? what knowledge...gain? / Tis not in battles that from youth we train." Just like Gorres, Coleridge does not take the Roman-republican forms of the consulate at their face... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...action, as object is passive - 'for Buonaparte'. In the rest of the quatrain: . . . the vital blood Of that Man's mind what can it be? What food Fed his first hopes? what knowledge could he gain? (lines 2 4) Wordsworth appears to forget himself and concentrate on Napoleon. Yet this very stress... | |
 | Stephen C. Behrendt - History - 1997 - 230 pages
...epithets as bitter as any in the press. In the sonnet, "I grieved for Buonaparte" of 1802, he wonders, "The tenderest mood / Of that Man's mind — what...Fed his first hopes? what knowledge could he gain?" Again, in "October, 1803" ('When, looking'), he writes, I see one man, of men the meanest too! Raised... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 1018 pages
...not as himself, but in his imaginative projection — not Milton, but as the man of the hour himself: "I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain / And an unthinking...tenderest mood / Of that Man's mind — what can it be?"35 He grieved because he imagined that he knew what Bonaparte's moods were like: he supposes that... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 302 pages
...wait the darkness of the night To cheer the wand'ring wretch with hospitable light. (1787) 203. 1801 I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief! the vital blood Of that man's mind — what can it be? What food Fed his first hopes? What knowledge could... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 740 pages
...himself, but in his imaginative projection - not as Milton, but as the man of the hour himself: 'I grieve for Buonaparte, with a vain / And an unthinking grief!...tenderest mood / Of that Man's mind — what can it be?'2' He grieved because he imagined that Bonaparte's moods were much like his own, in their wayward... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...stay secure; I'll think of the Leech-gatherer on the lonely moor!' 140 1801 I grieved for Buonaparte,1 with a vain And an unthinking grief! The tenderest...first hopes? what knowledge could he gain? Tis not in batdes that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - History - 2003 - 280 pages
...reworks gender categories and prefigures some of the major strategjes of the rest of the sonnet sequence: I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief! the vital blood Of that Man's mind what can it be? What food Fed his first hopes? What knowledge could... | |
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Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees : Books, leisure, perfect freedom,... 
