 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 9. 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... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! .'*' — Oh 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... | |
 | John Tulloch - Conduct of life - 1866 - 308 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 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 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 - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 304 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 - 1214 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 - 628 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 - 340 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 - 936 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... 
