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" BEHOLD a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED, King to Justice dear ! Lord of the harp and liberating spear... "
Alfred the great - Page 310
by Thomas Hughes - 1869
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 17

1822 - 858 pages
...That even imperfect faith to man affords?" P. 20. His eulogium on Alfred is just and energetic : " King to Justice dear ; Lord of the harp and liberating...Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to hi» deserts, who, like the rear, Pours forth his bounty, like the day doth cheer. And awes like night...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 17

1822 - 824 pages
...That even imperfect faith to man affords ?" P. 20. His eulogium on Alfred is just and energetic : " King to Justice dear ; Lord of the harp and liberating...Indigent Renown Might range the starry ether for a crown Eqnal to his deserts, who, like the tear, Pours forth his bounty, like the day cloth chter, And awes...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...all their Arts, — but classic Lore glides on By these Religious saved for all posterity. ALFRED. BEHOLD a Pupil of the Monkish gown, The pious ALFRED,...dear; Lord of the harp and liberating spear; Mirror of Priuces! ludigcut Renown ' lie expired dictating the lait word* of • IranilatioB of SlJoho'i Gospel....
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - 1832 - 378 pages
...posterity. * See note, p. 198. t See note, p. 198. L 2 148 ECCLESIASTICAL SKETCHES". XXVI. ALFRED. BEHOLD a Pupil of the Monkish gown, The pious ALFRED,...Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to At* deserts, who, like the year, Pours forth his bounty, like the day doth cheer, And awes like night...
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The Western Messenger, Volume 1

James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - 740 pages
..."an emphatic inanity" in them: — they see sense, point and truth, for instance, in that on Alfred, "Behold a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious Alfred,...Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to hit deserts; who, like the year, Pours forth his bounty; like the day doth cheer; And awes, like night,...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, Etc. Etc

William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...all then- Arts, — but classic lore glides ou By these Religious saved for all posterity. ALFRED. BEHOLD a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED,...Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to Ais deserts, who, like the year, Pours forth his bounty, like the day doth cheer, And awes like night...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...Arts, — but classic lore glides on By these Religious saved for all posterity. f ЛЛ » 1. ALFRED. BEHOLD a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED,...Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to Au deserts, who, like the year, Pours forth his bounty, like the day doth cheer, And awes like night...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...liberating spear ; Mirror of Princes ! Indigent Renown Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to hie deserts, who, like the year, Pours forth his bounty,...mercy-tempered frown. Ease from this noble miser of his time 4o moment steals ; pain narrows not his cares*. Though small his kingdom as a spark or gem, Of Alfred...
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Notes and Queries

1867 - 682 pages
...repair. How sweet thus lifeless, though with life, to lie! Thus, without dying, 0 how sweet to die ! " " The pious Alfred, king to justice dear, Lord of the harp and liberating spear." L« SCISCITATOR. " The verie essence and, as it were, springchcade and origine of all mnsicke is the...
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The Royal Descent of Nelson and Wellington from Edward the First, King of ...

George Russell French - 1853 - 234 pages
...mankind to produce, among the kings of the earth, an equal to her immortal Alfred." (Rev. HJ Rose.) " The pious Alfred, King to Justice dear, Lord of the harp, and liberating spear, Mirror of princes." WORDSWORTH. After the lapse of a thousand years, Englishmen still fondly cherish the character and...
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