 While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness—...  The Metropolitan - Page 111834Full view - About this book
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...whole world seems adverse to desert ;' will be heard by other Haydons yet unborn, and they may learn ' Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in...decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness : Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! ' We turn therefore with peculiar pleasure to the Wordsworth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert : And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived...— Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness : Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! XIV. COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE VALLEYS OF WESTMORELAND, ON EASTER... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! XLIII. FROM the dark chambers of dejection freed, Spurning the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! FROM the dark chambers of dejection freed, Rise, Gillies, Spurning... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may. Through long-lived...bright reward. And in the soul admit of no decay, Itrook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is bard ! n8 h«e,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 628 pages
...Faith in the whispers of the lonely muse, While the whole world seems adve'rse to desert. And oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! — vol. ii. p. 170. We have spoken of his worship of his art... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 424 pages
...centre upon an Everlasting Life. " And oh ! when nature shrinks, as oft she may, Through lon^-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness, — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard." JB ART. III. — An Impartial Exposition of the Evidences and... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Christian life - 1837 - 288 pages
...nature shrink*, as oft she may, Through long-liveJ [tressure of oSscure diitress, Still to be strenuou* for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continu mce of weak nil n Jedness, — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard." The Author of the... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived...Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! — vol. ii. p. 170. We have spoken of his worship of his art... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - Art - 1840 - 64 pages
...Faith in the whispers of the lonely muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. — And oh ! when nature sinks, as oft she may Through long-lived...of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the high reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak mindedness — Great is... | |
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