 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 American Journal of Education - Page 73edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED UPON WESTM1NSTEK BR1DGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he he... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 346 pages
...men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED OPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1838 - 510 pages
...like the no» : I'uru as the naked lieiivens, majestic, frei'. A didst thou travel on life's commun way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. I . VOI.ITH'AI. XONNIÎTH. (ÎKI:.\T Him have lut-il among us ; lianiis that poniu.l Ami tongues tluit... | |
 | 1839 - 510 pages
...selfish men, O ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties ou herself did lay." Works, p. 213. But we pass on to notice Wordsworth's power of description, as... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou h ail's ia voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Cromwell died, Sept. 3, 1658. Heriot's Hospital, in Edinburgh, was opened, and 30 boys admitted, llth... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840 - 376 pages
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart XV. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...behind into Lincoln's Inn Fields. He here continued to work in the education of a few scholars:— " So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." V'-u [Barbican. Designed from old Maps and Elevations, temp. James and Charles I.] But within two years... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...language too, is sublime and strong — worthy1 of the mind of tho Blind Minstrel. O Milton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose soun'l was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on life's... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...integrity of Belarius was vindicated, and he was received into favour by Cymbeline. 7* MILTON. " Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." — Wordsworth. Milton, who is rightly classed among the most exalted of British poets, was the son... | |
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