 The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.  Gems from the English Poets: Chaucer to Tennyson ; with Biographical Notices ... - Page 368by English poets - 1889 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,...still, and bright With something of an angel light. 311 VIII. 0 NIGHTINGALE! thou surely art A Creature of ebullient heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate. XXV. ODE TO DUTY. STERN Daughter of the Voice of God !...that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod V To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law ' When empty terrors overawe ; From... | |
 | Elizabeth Constantia Agnew - Conversion - 1819 - 266 pages
...instead of many !" CHAPTER XIX. A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller 'twist life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,...still and bright, With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH. AT this part of the conversation, Mr. Everard joined the two friends, and, much pleased... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,...still, and bright With something of an angel light. 134 IX. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,...still, and bright With something of an angel light. But the great distinction and glory of Mr Wordsworth's j poetry, is the intimate converse which it... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,...still, and bright With something of an angel light. 62 X. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine — they... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,...spirit still, and bright With something of an angel Tight. THY ART BE NATURE. A POET! — He hath put his heart to school. Nor dares to move unpropped... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...very pulse of the machine : A being breathing thoughtful breath ; A traveller betwixt life and death. The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,...still and bright, With something of an angel light. Such is the portrait which is amplified and placed in a hundred new lights in the PURITAN'S GRAVE.... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pages
...the in quoting for you in justification of и Ode to Duty"— my admiration for Wordsworth, but I " Stern daughter of the voice of God, O duty ! if that...love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the errmg, and reprove ; Then who art victory and law, When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveler betwixt life and death ; The leason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength,...still, and bright With something of an angel light. Shall I say of Wordsworth, that he delights to invest subjects taken from the plain and common life... | |
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