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
| Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 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." But within two years Milton was called to higher occupation. In the Council-books at the State Paper... | |
| C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 pages
...beginning Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee. He continued: Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. But to be aware of Milton's activities is to realize the extent to which Wordsworth like everyone else... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart. (1. 8—9) 42 EP; TrGrPo The Rigs o' Barley 46 The time flew by,...Till, 'tween the late and early, Wi' sma' persuasion (1. 12-14) AWP; EnRP; FaBoPV; FaBV; FaPoR; FF; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HelP; InvP; LiTB; NAEL-2; NIP; NoP;... | |
| J. Edward Chamberlin - 1993 - 340 pages
...selfish 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 lay.7 Sometimes, the purposes to which the form was turned were ironically political, undermining the... | |
| David Gervais - 1993 - 304 pages
...Leavis dismissed them as being, they hardly succeed in creating a real sense of Milton himself: Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea This lofty apartness is what really stirs the poet of solitude, not the prospect of national consensus.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...selfish 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. Written in London, September, 1802 O Friend! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as... | |
| Masson - 1995 - 228 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...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Why did I laugh tonight? Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell: No God, no... | |
| G Venkataraman - 1995 - 228 pages
...selfish 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 sea: ... Box 9.2 The following are some of the tributes paid to Saha on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday... | |
| Lela Knox Shanks - 1996 - 224 pages
...annihilation via radiation. Oh! rise up, return to us again; And give us the virtue to protest this shame. Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure...godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. You never visited my town; but, oh, how you affected its people. My earliest recall... | |
| Harold Bloom - 1997 - 212 pages
...is described as Wordsworth sees himself here: Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadsi a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. . . . The prayer then is to be an influence, and not to be influenced, and the precursor is praised... | |
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