 Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity; Yet in themselves are nothing ! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great...  Poems by William Wordsworth - Page 105by William Wordsworth - 1907 - 327 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 lehte
...insists upon the higher agency as the vital protection : — ' Even so doth God protect us if we he Virtuous and wise. Winds blow and waters roll, Strength...One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the aoul Only, the nations shall be great and free.'—p. 129. The same strain of sentiment will be found... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 lehte
...bright and fair, A span of waters; yet what power is there! What mightiness for evil and for good! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...blow, and Waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Eower, and Deity, Yet in themselves are nothing! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 lehte
...bright and fair, A span of waters; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...the Soul Only the Nations shall be great and free. XII. THOUGHT OF A BRITO.X OX THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 lehte
...bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...in themselves are nothing! One decree Spake laws to i/itm, and s;iid ihat by the Soul Only the Nations shall be great and free. THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON... | |
 | 1833 - 246 lehte
...bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there! What mightiness for evil and for good! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and Waters roll, Strengtli to the brave, and Power, and Deity, Yet in themselves are nothing! One decree Spake laws... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 376 lehte
...Bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity, Tel in themselves are nothing ! One decree Spake laws to tkem, and said that by the Soul Only the Nations... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 546 lehte
...bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good! i Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only the Nations shall be great and free." Wordsworth's perfect self-possession is finely shown in his mode of treating the career of Buonaparte,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 554 lehte
...bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only the Nations shall be great and free." Wordsworth's perfect self-possession is finely shown in his mode of treating the career of Buonaparte,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 lehte
...and reve rence of the prophets and heroes that have been, by all our fait! the soul, sursiim corda, " Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...the soul Only the nations shall be great and free." •.» We have received, with the above article, a large cargo of Aroeri literature. Pleasant such... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 lehte
...enemies became friends, so do disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors. ' Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing.' The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
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