 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
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...us up, return to us again ; Note. t See Note. And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power Thy soul , cuinmon way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT... | |
 | 1851 - 508 pages
...works. This contrast Wordsworth has finely depicted : — " Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like tlie sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ; So...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." In combination with the vastest native powers it is surprising to find industry that could quell all... | |
 | John Milton - 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... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...hour. • * * 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...the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, Majestic, free !' * This sublime and affecting production was but lately discovered among the remains of our great... | |
 | 1851 - 702 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 whose sound was like the i Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on life's common way. In cheerful... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 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 whose sound was like the se Pure as the naked heavens — majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful... | |
 | John Milton - 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 - 1852 - 364 pages
...shouldst be living at this hour. 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." One should have climbed to as high a point as Wordsworth to be able to review Milton, or even to view... | |
 | 1852 - 364 pages
...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thau hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure...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 - 1852 - 438 pages
...selfish men: Oh ; raise ns 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...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... | |
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